Frank Pittman Quotes

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

Not having a father is big. You need guidance. I know, personally, when my father died, I needed guidance; I needed somebody to show me how to be a man, how to grow up, basically how to do the right thing.

When it comes to little girls, God the father has nothing on father, the god. It's an awesome responsibility.

I've never known my real father, and I've never looked for a father figure in a boyfriend, but I suppose I have looked for real father figures in my life - and I've acquired more than one. I certainly couldn't ask for better ones. I love them enormously - and they know that.

We have a whole generation of men who don't understand how much they mean to their kids.

A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

We long for our father. We wear his clothes, and actually try to fill his shoes. . . . We hang on to him, begging him to teach ushow to do whatever is masculine, to throw balls or be in the woods or go see where he works. . . . We want our fathers to protect us from coming too completely under the control of our mothers. . . . We want to be seen with Dad, hanging out with men and doing men things.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.

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.

That's so important for children when they're growing up, to have a strong male role model.

All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

Most every young man either takes inspiration from his father or wishes he could. I was fortunate in that I could.

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.

My grandfather was raising me, and in many respects, I was trying to understand what it meant to be a man. He was my role model.

It means everything to be a father. I had a father growing up, so I wanted my kids to have a father as well.

Fatherhood is great.

Fatherhood is something that is personal to me because I didn't grow up around my father.

Jim Swan was my father, but Reg Barnes was my dad.

It is very difficult when you grow up without a father because you don't have a man who can give you direction and discipline.

I don't know my biological father. That could have had a huge impact on my life had it not been for the fact that my dad married my mom when I was one and raised me as his own.

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

Fathers have a unique and irreplaceable role in the lives of children.

If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity.

I believe the person who was out conquering the world, who was out fighting in the world were our fathers, so to have them come... I adored my father more than anyone in the world, but my father had more advice on work policies and how to get a job and how to survive in the work environment than my mother because my mother never worked outside of the home. So I think the support of fathers is very important.