#father

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. ↗

— Voltaire

#aged #board #child #father #his

My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#father #found #having #i #left

There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#because #brother #brother and sister #family #father

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#father #hate #hated #invented #radio

Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice. ↗

— Dwyane Wade

#could #fatherhood #glad #happen #i

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing. ↗

— Mark Wahlberg

#doing #doing the right thing #father #follower #friend

If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed. ↗

— Mark Wahlberg

#fail #failed #father #i #succeed

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#citizens #creatures #duties #fathers #free

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. ↗

— Alice Walker

#against #coconut #collapsing #defending #father

I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish. ↗

— Julie Walters

#approve #believed #father #felt #foolish