Fatherly Guidance Quotes

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.

When it comes to guys, my dad is the measure of the perfect man. And that's a pretty tough standard to match up to.

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

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 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 father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

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.

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

My father loved the single-handed backhand, so to him, that was the main goal; we were always fascinated by that shot. He taught me all the technique and how to structure my game. I was really privileged to have a father like that.

I was introduced to the game by my father, Tommy, when I was 11.

I had a father who was active, present. There are people out there that never knew their fathers, didn't have their father's support. If I were to complain, that would be real sad. How dare I?

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

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.

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

My biological father and I had a really good relationship at one point. He was one of my close friends and gave me wonderful advice.

Father' is such an arbitary word. Douche bag, on the other hand.

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

It's not that we have too much mother, but too little father. We can't forgive our mothers for taking the place of our fathers until we are ready to see that the point of a man's life is to be a father and a mentor, and we can't do that because we don't know how we would be a father or a mentor when we never had one.

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

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.

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Big Mike Meyer was my real dad as far as I was concerned.

On this special Fathers Day, we'd like to wish all of you a very Happy Birthday.

Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.