Quotes About Fatherhood

Never underestimate your role as a father. Remember, Dads, that your children's view of God will largely be dependent on their view of you.

Whether you received brokenness or goodness from your own father, you are a new creation in Christ (2 Corinthians 5: 17).

It is bad enough if a young man does not have a biological father to mentor him and help him grow, but when there is no spiritual father as well, he is fatherless twice. When a boy or a man is fatherless twice, he doubly misses out on receiving the blessing that he needs in his life.

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

Will you allow your daughter to go goblin hunting with me?" Mr. Wylltson leaned against the back of the chair and studied Finn. "Nothing," he said finally, "can prepare a man for a question like that.

Trying to kill your own father, dueling with a clone of yourself, serving the Dark Side for the Emperor. If that's what it takes to be a powerful Jedi, maybe I don't want the job!

I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.

I've had to calm down, I have a kid! It is amazing. It's the best thing ever. Nothing better than it.

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.

that is the way of life—people coming and going. A poor excuse for a father I would be if I held you back and kept you from blooming.

My father is Lester Liu. - Oona

I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties with their four-year-old girls clasped to their pant legs and say, "Yeah, but studies say kids can buy drugs more easily than they can buy alcohol." To which I always respond, "I guess that means you keep heroin in your liquor cabinet?

I've always wanted to be a dad.

He was not Monica's biological child, and all the research said that no matter how good a mom she was, she would never be enough. Fathers didn't seem to be so accused in the literature.

She missed her dad with a constant ache. She missed the reassurance, the comfort a good father brings a daughter.

Antoine was Julien's father in every way that mattered. It is not biology that determines fatherhood. It is love.

Lucretius expresses this, wonderfully: . . . we are all born from the same celestial seed; all of us have the same father, from which the earth, the mother who feeds us, receives clear drops of rain, producing from them bright wheat and lush trees, and the human race, and the species of beasts, offering up the foods with which all bodies are nourished, to lead a sweet life and generate offspring . . . (De rerum natura, bk. II, lines 991–97) It

Lack of attention from Daddy made me think less of me and not less of him.

Could it be that the great Bonaparte is incapable of fathering a child? that it is not I who am at fault but you?

There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.

I told him about the Oedipal thing, about my father leaving when I was very young so I knew how to pine for men, but not how to love them. So he said, 'You'd probably would have been perfect for somebody in World War Two. You'd meet him and then he would get shipped overseas.' And I said, 'Maybe on our date I could drop you off and you could enlist,' and he said he would just got out and rent a uniform. So he was very funny.

So it stood to reason that if I could disappoint my own father—if I couldn't get my own father to love me enough to stick around or, God forbid, visit more often than one day a year—how was I ever going to get a man who didn't have to love me like daddies were supposed to? (Hey

And make sure you tell daddy That I'm still his little girl Yeah I still feel like I'm where I'm supposed to be But don't forget to remember me

When he is sick and you stand by the bedside shaken with fear, when he sleeps and you lean over him held by the amazement of seeing this little boy who has your life, God is there, too; indeed all this love of yours is only God's love which you sense vaguely. He, the true father, is there; He is around and above and below the child; He is in his heart. You only love at all because God loves infinitely more.