Michael Leunig Quotes

There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside.

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.

If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.

I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.

The interesting thing about an absent father is, for a child, you don't know he's absent. You just think he's... tardy.

Everybody's got a father. Even if he's not the nicest guy in the world.

You think of what might have been different if dad had been around, or how I might have turned out as a person. You just don't know. I might not even be playing cricket.

I have no worthwhile memories of my father, therefore no idea of what a father's role should be.

Father' is such an arbitary word. Douche bag, on the other hand.

If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around.

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.

All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.

Of course there's some things that I would have liked to have... none of my friends growing up had their father in the house. None of 'em. We had uncles and stuff like that, but nobody had a father in the house, none of my friends.

So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

I didn't have a father figure in the house.

I didn't have a dad around to pick me up when I fell, throw the ball to me outside. I always wonder how it would be if I did have a dad there.

I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.

I don't know what it's like to have a typical father figure. He's not the dad who's going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he's such a motivational person.

I grew up without a father figure.

The fatherhood thing is easy - when you're there.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.