Hank Williams Jr. Quotes

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

My dad, he's the rocker.

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

What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.

My dad was my hero, my best friend.

What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God. If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God? What you end up doing is you spend your life searching for a father and God. What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that can happen.

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.

You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right.

I was always looking for the same man - a strong father figure.

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.

It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.

It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.

Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.

My father, to me, was 10 feet tall.

Most people would die to have Hulk Hogan as a dad.

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

I wanted to emulate my father. I wanted to be as tough as he was. I wanted to do the things that he did. I watched him.

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.

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.

The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.

Having a strong father, I wanted an older man.

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

A boy, by the age of 3 years, senses that his destiny is to be a man, so he watches his father particularly-his interests, manner, speech, pleasures, his attitude toward work.

A father is a thousand schoolmasters.