Quotes About Parenting

We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

The big thing with all parents is they just want to be left alone. I want no demands. That's the best gift for Father's Day, just leave them alone.

Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother.

Perhaps that is what it means to be a father - to teach your child to live without you.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Years later, when I asked my father, I said 'Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?' he said, son, you plum wore me out.

When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.

I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.

I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.

I have one regret: I wish I was a better father.

He's amazing. He's a really dedicated father. I feel very blessed that every day I wake up and I live with my favourite people in the world, as well as my best friend.

A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.

It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

Tis a happy thing To be the father unto many sons.

The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.

A father is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with snapshots of his kids.

I say to all fathers - be as good as you can be- because your sons and daughters will follow in your footsteps.