“The hardest thing is deciding what I should tell you and what not to. Well, anyway, I've got a while yet before you're old enough to understand the tapes. They're more for me at this point... to help get it all straight. Should I tell you about your father? That's a tough one. Will it change your decision to send him here... knowing? But if you don't send Kyle, you could never be. God, you can go crazy thinking about all this... I suppose I'll tell you... I owe him that. And maybe it'll be enough if you know that in the few hours we had together we loved a lifetime's worth.” IfsThinkingKnowsShouldWellsEnoughHelpingTogetherFatherHoursDecisionKnowingCrazyToughLifetimeHardestTapeShould IHardest Thing Author:Sarah Connor
“My father is a marvelous mentor, and if you're going to have a mentor, the ones that work best let you make your own mistakes. You're ready to do your own thing and just at that moment of being unbridled, if somebody's trying to manage you too tightly, it's going to be tough - particularly if that person's got the same last name.” IfsTryingPersonsMomentsLastsFatherNamesMistakeReadyToughManageThat MomentMentorMarvelous Author:Brian Roberts
“Fathers need to be tough and tender...you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place.” NeedsFatherProtectSafeToughOur FamilySafe Places Author:Mark Driscoll
“The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough. Trying to make it through by staying hard and phallocentric. To me, that is just an impoverished conception of what it is to be a black male. It doesn't do justice to my grandfather, my father, my brother - or just the black men I grew up with.” MenTryingMindHardFatherBlackJusticeStreetsBrotherGrewGrew UpToughMalesMy BrotherStayingConceptionDiverseGrandfatherMy GrandfatherBlack Males Author:Cornel West
“Fathers who compete hard with their kids are monstrous. The father, for a throw-away victory, is sacrificing the very heart of hischild's sense of being good enough. He may believe he is making his son tough, as he was made tough by a similarly contending father, but he is only making his child desperate and mean like himself. Fathers must let their sons (and daughters) have their victories.” BelieveHeartMayMeanChildrenMadeHardEnoughKidsFatherSacrificeSonVictoryDaughterToughBe GoodDesperateGood EnoughMonstrousSon And DaughterContendingBeing Good Enough Author:Frank Pittman
“All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don't know how to be a man with a woman, only abrute or a boy, who fill up the divorce courts; all those corporate raiders and rain-forest burners and war starters who want more in hopes that will make them feel better; . . . are suffering from Father Hunger. They go through their puberty rituals day after day for a lifetime, waiting for a father to anoint them and say "Attaboy," to treat them as good enough to be considered a man.” KnowsMenWorldWantFeelsWarEnoughGuySufferingFatherWaitingBoysKnow HowSeeingToughRainTreatsCourtLifetimeHungerDivorceForestsCorporateGood EnoughRitualScareFeel BetterFatherhoodBe A ManPubertyStartersTough GuyRaiders Author:Frank Pittman
“I wanted to emulate my father. I wanted to be as tough as he was. I wanted to do the things that he did. I watched him.” WantedFatherToughEmulate Author:Arnold Palmer
“My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'” EndsBigsGuyFatherLinesHeroSmartToughLike MeDreamerSocialistMy HeroPolandTough GuyHandbagsCutters Author:Alan King
“Being a father is the hardest job on the planet, because we don't have parental instincts like women have. You have to learn how to be a father before you even become a father, from a very young age. It's necessary to override what we're told in society a father should be, like if your son falls and scrapes his knee, you got to be tough. Baseball and all that are cool, but it's the tenderness and interactions that are really important. Boys are different; we have to impart that sensibility and that tenderness to them.” IfsShouldImportantDifferentAgeJobsYoungFallFatherBoysPlanetsSonToughBaseballInstinctHardestKneesInteractionTendernessSensibilityYoung AgeImpartParentalYour SonBeing A FatherHardest Job Author:Malik Yusef
“My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.” MenHardEnoughCharacterFatherDadToughMy DadIron Author:Anthony Hopkins
“My mother was the tough-as-nails disciplinarian who showed very little to no emotion. My father, on the other hand, was a study in contradiction. He was the fire, hell, and brimstone preacher, while also being incredibly gentle and forward thinking. I identify with him a lot.” ThinkingLittlesHandsMotherFatherEmotionHellStudyFireToughGentleContradictionPreacherNailsForward Thinking Author:Patricia Montandon
“My mother really was an extraordinary, inspirational, tough, cool, sexy, funny woman and that's the kind of woman I've always surrounded myself with. It's my friends, particularly my wife, who is not only smarter than and stronger than I am but, occasionally taller too. I think it all goes back to my mother. My father and my stepfather prized whit and resolve in the women they were with above all things. And they were among the rare men who understood that recognising somebody else's power does not diminish your own.” ThinkingMenKindMotherFatherWifeUnderstoodMy FriendsToughAll ThingsStrongerExtraordinarySexyMy WifeWitResolveSmarterDiminishFunny WomenStepfathers Author:Joss Whedon
“Thanks to my father, I didn't have to face the tough side of life. Probably that's why I always chose love over money.” FacesFatherSidesToughThanks Author:Sonam Kapoor
“I felt that people would criticize everything. I was so scared about playing Paris. I was very much aware that the greatest concerts my father and mother had done were there. I was sure people would be very tough.” PeopleDoneWould BeMotherFatherFeltToughScaredParisCriticizeConcerts Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg
“And the rules were so clear, you could not deviate from that all. And I think it especially damaged my sisters because there was nothing they could do to get my father's attention, to win his approval. They could not play sports. They could not do these other things. They could not be tough. They could not be macho. And so I think they suffered just from sheer neglect if nothing else.” IfsThinkingPlayFatherWinningSportsAttentionClearToughNeglectMy SisterApprovalSheerMachoDeviate Author:Terry Gross
“My father wanted to be an actor, dreamed about being an actor, but he gave it up because my mom and his family told him, "You're never going to make it; it's too tough out there."” WantedActorsFatherMomToughMy Mom Author:David Copperfield
“Work ethic is one of the biggest things my father taught me. That man worked like every day, every day, 9 to 5, well 9 to 9 in his case, but he would treat it as if it was a 9 to 5 job. He would clock in. He would put in his hours. That is how you can write those you know incredibly long books that unfortunately there is not much market for anymore, but that is also how you can explore an idea on a deeper level than we get in our media surface these days. It's tough.” MenWritingLongBookFatherHoursEthicsToughClockWork EthicLong Book Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age. It's funny, I get an image of the thing with eggs and chickens where, when the egg is getting ready to hatch, the little chicken will start to peck at the shell a little bit, and the mom will hear that and start to peck at the shell from the outside, and they're both kind of working together.” KindAgeTogetherFatherMomToughWorking Together Author:Jeff Bridges
“I had a tough childhood, yes. I was born in rural Bangladesh to parents who had had no education beyond high school. We moved to the UK where I grew up in poverty, in some of the worst conditions in a developed economy, before moving to the projects - heaven - and I went to unremarkable schools before going to university. My father was a bus conductor first and then a waiter, and my mother a seamstress.” SchoolMovingMotherFatherHeavenParentPovertyEconomyChildhoodWorstHigh SchoolToughMovedBusConductorWaiter Author:Zia Haider Rahman
“One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.” AgeActorsFatherDoorsFeetToughHardestHardest ThingTough Things Author:Jeff Bridges
“How do you get on with your father ' Beleth asked. 'Very well ' Pyrgus answered loyally although it was far from the truth. 'I ate mine ' Beleth told him. 'He got old and feeble and useless but he wanted to hold on to power. So I took steps. Tasted disgusting - stringy tough smelly ... you know how fathers are - but it's the custom here. You're supposed to absorb the essence that way. Rank superstition of course but well ... tradition.” KnowsWayWellsWantedCoursesFatherStepsKnow HowMinesToughTraditionEssenceUselessCustomsSuperstitionsDisgustingSmelly Book:Faerie Wars Source: Faerie Wars
“My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.” LifeGivingUsedFatherMoneyToughCharityMaking MoneyPhilanthropyTough TimesPhilanthropicPhilanthropy GivingPhilanthropy Inspiration Author:Lee Iacocca