Michael Gurian 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Boys need fathers, and you can't do that in jail.

Fathers matter.

I love having my son in my life. That's why it's more fathers in the hip-hop community, because they probably went through a fatherless childhood like I did.

I grew up without a father figure.

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 think in today's society we are dealing with an epidemic of fatherless homes. We're turning everywhere else for people to be fathered.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

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

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

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

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.

Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.

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.

My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather.

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.

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

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.

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, … family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation.