Sentences with phrase «father figure to someone»

I don't want eternal life and I don't need a supernatural father figure to protect me.

Ruby didn't see her «troubled» father much when she was younger but says she didn't really miss having a father as she had other father figures to look up to.

Here at NCF, we believe this is a great time to challenge dads and father figures to give to their kids — specifically, to #GiveTIME.

The commercially and critically unsuccessful Kikujiro (1999), a weirdly mannerist road movie in which Kitano plays an offbeat father figure to an abandoned boy searching for his mother, was followed by Brother (2000), a slam - bang yakuza - versus - Mafia drama set in Los Angeles.

Motherless, thirteen - year - old Ruby Tailor is instantly drawn to her, as is Captin, the proprietor of the local chip shop, a fifty - year - old bachelor and father figure to Ruby, and Truda Blick, the Oxford - educated spinster who's inherited the failing button factory.

Jonah's grandfather was the most important father figure to Jonah because he was around all of his life, especially when was little.

From the daughter's perspective this would have highlighted the apparent inadequacies of her own father and given her an alternative father figure to love and feel loyalty towards.

But he finds a friend in a guy dressed as a Gouda cheese; also, he becomes an unlikely father figure to the rowdy kids of his sister - in - law (Lisa Kudrow).

After his dad left the family, Shawn, only 10, bounced from one father figure to another, showing a talent for both rhyming and street hustling, and eventually moved in with a friend's family in New Jersey.

«He's like a father figure to me.»

«He was a father figure to all of us,» said senior Karlos Valentin, 18.

Long's attorneys deny those allegations and maintain that the pastor was attempting to be a father figure to the youths by providing them with financial assistance and encouragement.

He was somewhat of a father figure to many of us.»

Coach Saban was like a father figure to me.

Wenger is like a father figure to most, if not all of Arsenal players.

but i also think another manager younger more dynamic could inspire the whole team to do better, i truly believe we have a really good talent in our team and we are not getting the best out of them, i rate AW of being a good manager outside the game where his the father figure to a bunch of almost young kids with fame and wealth is commendable but on the field his like their mother

Gaines could be strict — especially when it came to class work — but he also was a father figure to his players, staying in contact long after they left school.

You would think that he should act like a father figure to the players rather than to reach a level where you dislike a player to an extend that it spills even to the field of play.

Mr Wenger DaD, you've been like a father figure to me (with those big bloodshot puppy eyes, bulging out of their sockets)??

He who has been a Father figure to all and sundry at AFC and continue to be in spite of all the vehement vitriol, abrasive language and ridicule that he had so publicly to absorb and endure all last season.

Everyone always says he's like a father figure to them.

He is a father figure to the players as he has been with Arsenal for 20 yrs now but he should be doing better.

Manchester City midfielder James Milner says having a baby has changed him and that he wants to become more of a father figure to his teammates in the dressing room as a result.

It has often been said by current and former players that the Frenchman is like a father figure to them and that is great.

Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas described the Frenchman as «like a father figure to me» on his Instagram account, while Robin van Persie called Wenger «Definitely one of the very best ever!»

Allegri needs to be a teacher and kind of a father figure to Dybala if the star forward is to regain his elite form and buy into staying with Juventus longterm.

So, in him we trust, but the father figure to fulfill Mario's prodigious potential is slowly wilting and dying a slow death.

• access to services by young children and their families, including their fathers and any father figures

Carey Casey works with the National Center for Fathering, a nonprofit organization seeking to improve the lives of children and establish a positive fathering and family legacy that will impact future generations by inspiring and equipping fathers and father figures to be actively engaged in the life of every child.

The National Center for Fathering is a non-profit research and education organization whose mission is to improve the lives of children and reverse the trends of fatherlessness by inspiring and equipping fathers, grandfathers and father figures to be actively engaged in the life of every child.

Today, NCF strives to improve the lives of children and establish a positive fathering and family legacy that will impact future generations by inspiring and equipping fathers and father figures to be actively engaged in the life of every child.

We strive to improve the lives of children and establish a positive fathering and family legacy that will impact future generations by inspiring and equipping fathers and father figures to be actively engaged in the life of every child.

At the National Center for Fathering, we work to improve the lives of children and reverse the trends of fatherlessness by inspiring and equipping fathers, grandfathers and father figures to be actively engaged in the life of every child.

NCF is a nonprofit organization seeking to improve the lives of children and establish a positive fathering and family legacy that will impact future generations by inspiring and equipping fathers and father figures to be actively engaged in the life of every child.

That's how long we've been doing what we do here at NCF — inspiring and equipping fathers, grandfathers and father figures to be actively engaged in the life of every child.

And isn't it interesting how quickly Penn takes on the father figure to the doll in this video?

«He was like a father figure to everyone at the beach, including myself,» said Ark Pachnik, who, as a teenager in the mid 1990s, worked under Mr. Nystrom at Foster Avenue Beach.

strives to improve the lives of children and establish a positive fathering and family legacy that will impact future generations by inspiring and equipping fathers and father figures to be actively engaged in the life of every child.

Carey Casey is the CEO of the National Center for Fathering, a nonprofit organization seeking to improve the lives of children and establish a positive fathering and family legacy that will impact future generations by inspiring and equipping fathers and father figures to be actively engaged in the life of every child.

Here at the National Center for Fathering, our mission is to improve the lives of children and establish a positive fathering and family legacy that will impact future generations by inspiring and equipping fathers and father figures to be actively engaged in the life of every child.

I suppose in another place we could speculate at length about the Rev. Tillard's search among famous spiritual leaders for a father figure to take the place of the jazz musician who deserted his family when Conrad was young... but who cares really?