Quotes About Fatherhood

He thought she hung the moon. He actually believed this from time to time. He believed the moon wouldn't have been there but that she'd hung it. He believed the stars were wishes, and that one day they would all come true. For her, his daughter. He had told her this when she was little to make her happy, and now that he was old he believed it, because it made him happy and because he was so very old. He

The heart of the Father is always to put us back on track, a little wiser, and ever grateful for another chance. When

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. — Mark Twain

I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

Paternity is a long way from fatherhood.

As a father, you are patterning your discipline after your heavenly Father, whom your children need to realize you deeply respect and love.

What Dougie had actually said was You shouldn't get too up your own arse about being a dad. You get a wee man or a wee lassie to play with for a bit and the next thing you know there's this superfluous person knocking about who doesn't seem to know much about you, but it's all your fault.

He climbed through the vast stillness, alone...and yet somehow, he knew, no longer alone. For now his two fathers climbed with him.

is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. —SCHILLER

Charming man, he said. I wish I had a daughter so I could forbid her to marry one...

Institutionalized motherhood demands of women maternal 'instinct' rather than intelligence, selflessness rather than self-realization, relation to others rather than the creation of self. Motherhood is 'sacred' so long as its offspring are 'legitimate' -- that is, as long as the child bears the name of a father who legally controls the mothe.r

The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.

Papa had never loved me, I knew that well enough. If he had, I might have loved him in return. No, there had not been love between us, but we had belonged together, and I had looked after him,

Through all of this my father did not let me loose to spin on my own. He just kept telling me, as I became more and more panicky, "Don't panic. There's nothing to get excited about." He told me if I would just wait calmly, my road in life would open up to me of its own accord. I don't know exactly what kind of viewpoint led him to tell me such things; perhaps he was speaking from his own experience of life. As it turned out, his words proved amazingly accurate.

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

Dad instantly set out his stall:he wanted a big dog, a 'man dog',a dog that if it was human would enjoy a pint and stare at the barmaid's arse

We both lacked the same thing in our childhoods - the love of a father... We both sought to fill that lack in our adult lives with family and love, as everyone does, but also with thrills and sometimes periods of recklessness. Luckily, I have always come back from my recklessness. Tommy Darling did not.

Katie is my hero. She has taken on challages in her life that I'm not sure I could ever come close to realizing for myself. I admire her greatly. And I say this,not because I'm her father,but because it's true. But being her father may have just a small bit to do with it

As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.

It's not a born-again thing; it was a peaceful, really, really cool moment where I just felt that I was no longer the dad anymore. I actually had become a son, and it makes things much easier from a day-to-day perspective.

Being married is one thing, but having kids will completely change you. I still go out and hang with my buddies, but having two daughters will completely change your perspective on the world.

Depression is real, and that really hit me hard. I was going through a phase where I wasn't talking to no one. Only my son. Me and my son would do stuff, but I was talking to no one.