Yoshihiko Noda Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

Dads have been increasingly hands-on for quite a while. And yet, we still insist on portraying dads as bumbling idiots.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.

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

Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.

In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all.

We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list.

I always appreciated that connection between a parent and a kid because I yearned for it so much. Growing up, I wanted a father, and because I've had this idea of what a father should be, it's exciting to finally have the opportunity to try and be that guy, to see if I can actually do it.

Whatever their age, most men have never received true fathering.

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.

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

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

All Pro Dad is an organization that started down in Tampa in 1997. And it was just a group of us who felt like we weren't doing as good a job as our fathers did in connecting with kids and being there and being involved in their lives, working and coaching and spending all the time we had to. We just felt badly.

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

Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have 'evolved' from real people like Sheriff Andy Taylor, Beaver's dad Ward Cleaver and Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable, to cartoon dads like Homer Simpson and Seth MacFarlane's caricatures in 'American Dad!' and 'Family Guy.'

Many of us were raised without a father, and the subject of deadbeat dads hits home in a lot of areas. Most of all, doing a song about being a father to your daughter flies straight in the face of the argument that says hip-hop is misogynistic.

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.