Bart Millard Quotes

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.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

I'm estranged from my father and that relationship, as a young man, is incredibly important. It's probably responsible for the man I've become.

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

I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.

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

Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

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.

I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.

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.

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

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.

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.

I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

People who knew Dad used to say at times I was brought up as the son Dad never had.

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.

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.

So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers.

My stepdad didn't have a father growing up, so he didn't know how to have a father-son style conversation. Plus, we had a tense relationship in which he never really offered me advice.

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

'Boy' was about my dad.

Jeff Garlin is essentially my dad.

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