He adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector.
A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.
A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.
I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started.
Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children.
And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. But the father said to his servants, 'Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and cet us eat and celebrate. For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.' And they began to celebrate.
My father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.
Don't wait to make your son a great man - make him a great boy.
Then I said to you, 'Do not be in dread or afraid of them. The LORD your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.
A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be
Every son quotes his father, in words and in deeds.
Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow.
It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.
My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.
I believe I am happy. I don't think I have achieved happiness in all areas of my life yet. As far as success is concerned, my family is being taken care of. But I think the last level of happiness would be becoming a father.
I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.
My father left us three times when I was between three and six. You just couldn't tell - suddenly one day he would leave and then maybe he would come back after six months without telling you why. And then maybe he would disappear again after a year and it's very difficult to take when you are four or five. You just don't know how to handle it and nobody in the family wants to talk about it. My mother didn't know how to tell us and she needed to work because we needed money to live.
Acting is something that we all practice at some time in our lives. We're different people to our mothers, fathers, our friends, people that we hung out together with, people that didn't like us or we didn't like them. We readjust ourselves.
Mexican style of boxing training is different from what my father had trained me. It was good for me because it was an added knowledge, an addition to my boxing IQ.
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.
I feel so grateful to my mother and father for a happy childhood. There are things I now understand that they were able to give me that are very special.
We're travelling through space and time, we're dealing with gods and monsters, but at the heart of the film, from my perspective, is a family - a father, two sons, two brothers, a mother and the fractious, intimate interaction that they have.
