Quotes About Fatherhood

My son looks more like George Harrison than I do.

He didn't want to tell his son what to do, but told me to write the president a letter. I didn't name a country, but there are many countries we have a fragile relationship with.

Mr S. got angry. 'Yes, I do have a son. He's a good-for-nothing. A dead loss.' I couldn't ask which prison he was in, so I put it more tactfully: 'What is he doing?' He sighed deeply: 'He's a professor of mathematics at London University.

War was easier than daughters.

Let him grow taller,she asked the gods.Let him know sixteen, and twenty, and fifty. Let him grow as tall as his father, and hold his own son in his arms. Please, please, please.

Un hombre puede ser valiente cuando tiene miedo? - oyó que preguntaba su voz, tenue y lejana. – El el único momento en que puede ser valiente, Bran - le respondió la voz de su padre.

You are Alayne, and you must be Alayne all the time." He put two fingers on her left breast. "Even here. In your heart. Can you do that? Can you be my daughter in your heart?" "I . . ." I do not know, my lord, she almost said, but that was not what he wanted to hear. Lies and Arbor gold, she thought. "I am Alayne, Father. Who else would I be?

Theon swept his cloak off its peg and over his shoulders. "Fathers are like that," he admitted as he pinned the folds with a silver clasp. "Tell him he should be pleased. As many times as I've fucked you, you're likely with child. It's not every man who has the honor of raising a king's bastard.

At 45, 2 years after the birth of his last child, he started running again.

Notre vie est déjà pleine de morts, et pour chacun le plus mort des morts est le petit garçon qu'il fut. Et pourtant l'heure venue, c'est lui qui reprendra sa place à la tête de ma vie, rassemblera mes pauvres années jusqu'à la dernière, et comme un jeune chef ses vétérans, ralliant la troupe en désordre entrera le premier dans la maison du Père.

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

It did not even occur to David to consult Ruti herself about this, or any other matter. Had he done so, he would have been most surprised by the result. He did not realize it, but his love for his daughter marched hand in hand with a kind of contempt for her. He saw his daughter as a kind-hearteed, dutiful, but vaguely pitiable soul. David, like many people, had made the mistake of confusing "meek" with "weak.

Definition of Father's Day: Same as Mother's Day but you don't spend as much.

No matter what, Dad was always there with solid words of advice . . . "Go ask your mother."

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

To become a father is not hard, to be a father is, however.

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. —Sigmund Freud

Technically he is old enough to be her father; but then, technically one can be a father at twelve.

One wants to leave something behind. Or at least a man wants to leave something behind. It's easier for a woman.' Why is it easier for a woman? 'Easier I mean to produce something with a life of its own.' Doesn't being a father count? 'Being a father...I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business.

crees que me amarían, unos niños engendrados desde las entrañas de la indiferencia? Por supuesto que no. Me odiarían y me despreciarían, que es exactamente lo que yo me merecería. ¿Quién necesita a un padre de corazón ausente?

Aha! Lassiter pointed at the boob tube. You motherfucker! I knew you were the father!