Fatherly Protection Quotes

My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.

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.

A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if they've had a competitive relationship with their own father.

God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

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.

Fathers are the first image of who God is!

When a son tells a dad to trust him, it goes against every instinct in his body to do so.

No matter what I think about this, Leila, you're my daughter, so you are not walking down that aisle alone.

I grew up in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. At the time I was growing up with my father - before it was gentrified - it was a very rough neighborhood. He felt that if I got into or started embracing the rap culture, I would be one step closer to being on the streets.

Oh father high in heaven - smile down upon your sonWho's busy with his money games - his women and his gun.