“This expression of ours, "Father of a family."”

“To all the families out there without their fathers they must remember that our eternal Father in heaven will be there for us at all times and we should celebrate because of that.”

“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.”

“In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.”

“A father’s traditional role prepared him to love his family by being away from the love of his family.”

“Better a loving single parent family than a 'conventional' family wherein the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.”

“During Partition, my entire family was saved by a Muslim. His name was Yakub -- a friend of my father's who lived a mile-and-a-half away from our village.”

“The prospect of a generation of American children being raised by women in homes without fathers is challenging for religious institutions whose central conception of deity is father, whose central conception of church is family, whose only conception of family is heterosexual.”

“There is little life where no one will listen. These are fathers, sons and families who are needlessly lost.”

“If you're a parent, you know how incredibly good it feels when one of your children spontaneously thanks you for something. God is our Father, and he, too, is moved when we express our thanksgiving.”