Quotes by category:Dad

While my dad is a rebel at heart, I am a conformist. by Vivaan Shah

While my dad is a rebel at heart, I am a conformist.

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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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I'm a dad, and that's really important to me, and I realize now that I'm a dad that it's a major part of my identity.

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My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Se... by W. P. Kinsella

My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.

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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

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I hated art as a kid. I didn't even like art class. I didn't like to draw. I would make my dad do all the drawings because I hated it so much.

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

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Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

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My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.

Walter Dean Myers

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In a sense, in the area of child care, children's relationships with parents' working has come full circle. We have gone from the mom-and-pop store (or mom-and-pop farm), with its integration of child care and work, to children-at-home and dad-at-work; to the mom-plus-daddy working at home, with its integration of childcare and work again. From mom-and-pop back to mom-and-pop.

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Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace. The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.

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Nobody has said to men, It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.

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Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the ex... by Warren Farrell

Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads.

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Industrialization created the Father's Catch-22: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.

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All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.

At this moment in history, millions of 'working dads' are desiring to do what they do not feel they have the right to do: be more devoted as a dad, less devoted as a worker. This feeling is far more ubiquitous among men executives than women executives in many areas of the world because, for instance, Asia-Pacific women executives today are more than six times as likely to not have children than men executives are. The Asia-Pacific executive man is about six times as likely to be a working dad as an executive woman is to be a working mom.

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Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.

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When a dad admits he is wrong or asks for help, he allows the child to see him- or herself as adequate even when she or he is also wrong. It encourages children to make suggestions and, therefore, to discover their creativity because they have a chance of making a contribution.

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I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.

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My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.

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