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“If you love your dad, it’s tough when he dies. If you don’t like your dad, it’s tough when he dies. Because you lose that guy. Whatever you didn’t get, you miss. And what you did get, you miss.”
― Jimmy Iovine

“He had been searching for it his entire life. He had devoted himself to poetry to find it. Now, in the middle of his life, he found it. It was in the face of the love of his life, his daughter. She who had never blushed before, now blushed. And in that blushing, he knew, was the existence of God. That was the day her father learned what God was. God was pure beauty, God was his daughter’s face when she blushed.”
― Roman Payne

“Don't ever fall in love, princess. It hurts too damn much.”
― C.C. Hunter, Whispers at Moonrise

“It made a big difference in my life to grow up with a dad who wasn't afraid of how great my mom was.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Was it too much to expect the rest of the world to care about grammar or pay attention to details?”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“What else can you tell me?â€� Dad stares at me. “What have you learned while you were awake?â€�
I learned that life is so, so fragile. I learned that you can know someone for just days and never forget the impression he left on you. I learned that art can be beautiful and sad at the same time. I learned that if someone loves you, he’ll wait for you to love him back. I learned that how much you want something doesn’t determine whether you get it or not, that “noâ€� might not be enough, that life isn’t fair, that my parents can’t save me, that maybe no one can. “Nothing much,â€� I mutter.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“Evan stares at me.
I try to hug him. He takes a step back. I pause, my heart in my throat. I’ve got to reach out to him, let myself be vulnerable. I find the courage, but he backs up again.
“You can’t go to Iraq anymore.�
“I know.�
He looks up at Deanna, then back to me. “Did you fight bad guys? You told me you weren’t.� His voice is suspicious, full of accusation. He doesn’t trust me, and I don’t blame him for that.
“No, Evan. I didn’t fight bad guys.�
I can’t bring myself to tell him the complete truth. I want so desperately to go back into this fight. I miss it every day. I always felt I could change the world with a rifle in my hands and our flag on my shoulder.
“Did you get shot?� he looks me over, apparently searching for bullet wounds.
I grin a little. “No, Bud, I didn’t get shot.�
“People get shot in Iraq.�
“Yes, they do.�
It strikes me then that Evan for the first time has a grasp on the dangers that are faced over there. He’s six now, and the world is coming into focus for him.
“People get shot, Daddy. They die. Bad guys kill them.�
I think of Edward Iwan and Sean Sims.
“Yeah, I know they do, Evan.”
― David Bellavia, House to House: An Epic Memoir of War

“I'm going to be a person who writes stories.

I never told mom and dad how much I loved them.

I wanna be someone who can tell a lot of people how much I love them.”
― Aoboshi Kimama, Kinoko Inu - Mushroom Pup, Vol. 1

“The best way to encourage your children is to let them know you are praying for them.”
― Jim George, A Dad After God's Own Heart: Becoming the Father Your Kids Need

“Certain things are extremely difficult to understand, such as the concept of unconditional love, perhaps it is due to mislead thoughts about God’s love for us. Assuming that we can say or do certain things and suddenly lose this love and approval. But I when I picture God I picture him standing with his arms out saying, "Beth stop punishing yourself." And he says it like my dad used to say, with such great authority and assurance in his voice that I can't help but smile, and know it's gonna be ok.”
― Bethany Brookbank, Write like no one is reading

“(Don Fey had a large rubber stamp that said "bullshit," which was and is awesome.)”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“Honestly, I'd rather be anywhere else. Even home, where my dad begins almost every conversation with, "You should lose the black clothes and wear something with color." Puh-lease. Like I want to look like every Barbie clone in Hell High, a.k.a. Oklahoma's insignificant Haloway High School. Ironically, Dad doesn't appreciate the bright blue streaks in my originally blond/now-dyed-black hair. Go figure. That's color, right?”
― Gena Showwalter

“With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before—simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he still knew so little about him.”
― Sol Luckman, Snooze: A Story of Awakening

“Evan no longer tells people I fight bad guys for a living. When asked, he tells his friends that his dad talks on the phone a lot and vacuums on occasion.”
― David Bellavia, House to House: An Epic Memoir of War

“My Dad has been a feminist, way before I learnt how to spell the word.”
― Shahla Khan

“The thaw came and the snow melted away and so did my dad. 'til there wasn't nothing left.”
― Jeff Lemire

“I WISH I FIGURED OUT A WAY TO LOVE YOU WITH ALITTLE LESS EFFORT.”
― Diane Keaton, Then Again

“Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.”
― Elizabeth George

“We all have days when we say that we are gown-ups, that we are mature, have a lot of experience and don't need advise from others.
But it is our mom and dad we turn to when we're in trouble or can't find the answer to a question.”
― Maurice J. Dubois

“That's such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship. You know how many kids get a free ride? Hardly any. Like, maybe fourteen.' -Finn (165)”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory

“Your father doesn't fucking play games. you would never come home with a shamrock tattoo in that house.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“My Dad gave me wings to my DREAMS. - Merlin Thomas”
― merlin8thomas

“They fuck you up, your mum and dad? No, that wasn't it at all. Well, they did do that, perhaps, but they also allowed you to become the person, and the writer, that you had it in you to be.”
― Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

“We’re gonna do like Posh and Becks and call it after the place it was conceived.â€�
“Where’s that?� I asked.
“King of Prussia.”
― Henry G. Radcliff, The Sheriff of Nowhere

“There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children”
― Jim George, A Dad After God's Own Heart: Becoming the Father Your Kids Need

“That night, stargazing on the deck with Dad, eyes on the sky, he pointed out Orion, Betelgeuse. "It's an art to read the stars, baby."
I never wanted to leave his side-my sure song for so long. Now? His eyes are stone changed. Just looking at them hurts my heart.”
― Norma Fox Mazer, What I Believe

“Before you and your spouse can work as a team raising your children, you must first work as a team in your marriage.”
― Jim George, A Dad After God's Own Heart: Becoming the Father Your Kids Need

“Jeeter?" Grace whispered into her walkie-talkie. "Are you awake?" She waited.

A few weeks ago, she and Jeeter had started chatting on their walkie-talkies late at night when she couldn't sleep. He always answered her call no matter how late it was.

"I'm here," his voice echoed back. "Trouble sleeping again?"

"Yeah."

"Another bad dream?"

"Uh-huh," she sniffed, unexpected tears flooding her eyes. My dad was calling for me, but I couldn't find him." She couldn't believe she'd said it. She'd never told anyone what she saw in her dreams. But Jeeter understood. He'd told her before that he had bad dreams too, since his mom had died.”
― Jo Ann Yhard, Fossil Hunter of Sydney Mines

“He had won, easily. This was something else he could do, and do well, and his Dad had been there to witness his success.”
― Michael Braccia

“He had won, easily. This was something else he could do, and do well, and his Dad had been there to witness his success.”
― Michael Braccia, Could it be That Way: Living with Autism