Rafe Spall Quotes

I was really close to my father since I was young. He always told me that I had to work in order to become a man, so I had to stay with him when my mother left. He always took me to work to help him as a bricklayer. I was just a kid, so I did what I could do to help him.

We long for our father. We wear his clothes, and actually try to fill his shoes. . . . We hang on to him, begging him to teach ushow to do whatever is masculine, to throw balls or be in the woods or go see where he works. . . . We want our fathers to protect us from coming too completely under the control of our mothers. . . . We want to be seen with Dad, hanging out with men and doing men things.

My dad and I are best friends. He's pretty much responsible for the way I turned out. He would provide a little artistic inspiration here and there in the form of a guitar, stuff like that.

When I came into the Perry family, it was one of those deals where it was the only family I had. I didn't have a father figure growing up like that, somebody who genuinely cared about me. Governor Perry taught me how to be a good man.

My dad, he's a great father, but he's also been one of my mentors.

Not having a father is big. You need guidance. I know, personally, when my father died, I needed guidance; I needed somebody to show me how to be a man, how to grow up, basically how to do the right thing.

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it.

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to.

I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.

Some men don't have the opportunity to be the type of father they need to be, and I hope my example teaches them to step up.

My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about.

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.

I wish my parents could have raised every man out there.

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

I think if you look at most successful people, if you ask most of them, their biggest influence was their dad.

My father wasn't the best role model to me.

I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.

My dad is a very good sounding board. He's very, very smart. Both of my parents are very, very sharp, much smarter than I, I'm happy to acknowledge.

I think that even though my father wasn't there, in his death and in his memory, he has been a mentor to me in my manhood because my mom couldn't teach me how to be a man.

Most every young man either takes inspiration from his father or wishes he could. I was fortunate in that I could.