Top 1200 Abusive Father Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

When I was nine, my father passed away. It's one thing when you're a kid and your father wasn't there for you. My father was there, and then he was taken away.

Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father.

I know what it feels like to represent clients who can't get restraining orders on abusive partners.

Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.

I was 10th of 11 kids in an alcoholic, abusive, poor family. We all want things that we can't have. And I found comedy.

Many television weather-women were one abusive parent away from prostitution.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

I like kindness. Who doesn't? Life is definitely too short for self-centered, abusive people.

You mean there’s someone out there better than your father? (Quills) No, idiot. My father trained him. Just FYI, my father is also his godfather. So you want to be real nice to Dev. All of us take it personally when people aren’t. (Adron)

I would love to have kids. I can't wait to be a father, had a great father - still have a great father.

What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God. If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God? What you end up doing is you spend your life searching for a father and God. What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that can happen.

My personal view is that until there is a disincentive to write lies and abusive comments it's going to continue.

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

The harshest thing I can say is I was married to someone for whom all dissent was abuse. If you had your own opinion, you were abusive.

When you're trapped in an abusive home environment you can feel completely hopeless and lost. Remember that situations can change with time, and that it won't be this way forever.

As a father you're guilty until proven innocent. You're a second class citizen in terms of parenting. As a father you have to prove your ability to be a father whilst residence, power and control is left solely with the mother.

Strangely, I have a huge aversion to movies that try to teach healthy people an abusive lesson about the darkness in the world.

President Obama certainly has an impressive gift for eloquence, and he has a global vision, as did my father. He doesn't rattle easy, and he doesn't harbor animosity, which were also characteristics my father had. But my father's arena was far broader than politics.

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

I had to turn off my Twitter notifications for a while as I got a small minority of people sending me some abusive tweets.

I truly believe the American consumer doesn’t want to buy products made under abusive conditions.

Can anyone be a father without beginning to be one? Yes, one who did not begin his existence. What begins to exist begins to be a father - God the Father did not begin at all. He is Father in the true sense, because He is not a son as well. Just as the Son is son in the true sense, because He is not a father as well. In our case, the word 'father' cannot be truly appropriate, because we must be fathers and sons.

People who are in abusive relationships often don't realise it, but it slowly seems to build until you're trapped.

We, as lawyers, must point out that unrestrained power is almost always abusive.

My father was a Victorian product. He didn't marry until he was over 40. I knew him more as a grandfather than a father. You didn't lie or cheat with him. I would never have defied my father.

I learned respect for womanhood from my father's tender caring for my mother, my sister, and his sisters. Father was the first to arise from dinner to clear the table. My sister and I would wash and dry the dishes each night at Father's request. If we were not there, Father and Mother would clean the kitchen together.

Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

I feel very sorry for people who are trapped in an abusive relationship and keep making excuses for their abuser.

If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.

I have the most guilty, abusive relationship with McDonald's. Left to my own devices, I'd probably eat four Big Macs a week.

Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.

Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

I met Roy's father once... And I think that Roy's relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day, he's trying to prove himself to a father he'll never really please.

My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese.

I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.

I believe that Donald Trump in the White House would be more abusive to the Constitution than Barack Obama, and that's saying a lot.

I have said that gymnastics can be abusive and brutal. That was my experience. I felt trapped in a world where authority figures were dictating my future.

... I believe the Father came down from heaven, as the apostles said he did, and begat the Saviour of the world; for he is the ONLY-begotten of the Father, which could not be if the Father did not actually beget him in person.... I believe the Father came down in His tabernacle and begat Jesus Christ.

I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.

The film 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,' based the book of the same name, has a line that enlightens and comforts me. The protagonist, who has lost all ability to move except one eye, discusses his role as a father. He notes, 'Even a fraction of a father is still a father.'

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

You'll hear guys talk all the time about coaches being a father figure. Well I'm 45 years old and I've never met my father. I consider Jerry Tarkanian my father.

The Internet used to be fun, it was nice, now it's a way for people to be abusive towards one another.

In sexual contact a doorway opens between people, and it is very possible for someone to be abusive at that time with energy.

Childhood was abusive and horrible, I endured some stuff I don't even want to talk about. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

If I have written anything, a person will comment using abusive language if they feel it's wrong. Why can't you relax and write properly.

I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive.

Abusive relationships go on and on. You're in it for so long that it can almost be impossible to see it for what it is. That just becomes your life. We get used to and adapt.

For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.

I think that's just a general English attitude [being abusive]. I did the same thing to famous people.

Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role.

An imbalanced association is when one or both parties become abusive and takes unfair advantage, tries to block another's enlightenment or success.

My experience in growing up in Scientology is that it is both mentally and at times physically abusive.

I only feel better because people aren't being so abusive to me about my weight.

Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.

A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior.