Quotes About Fatherhood

If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home.

Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father.

God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in his image. We have inherited divine characteristics from him.

It's time for the fathers to get involved in the spiritual activities of their families. For too long, the women have carried more than their share of family responsibility.

I felt a responsibility to Simon and to our kids to be able to live with integrity and not have some strange split psychology of 'This is who my dad is at home, and this is who he is to the public.'

Guys who feel like it makes you a man to make babies, they're completely misguided. It makes you a man to be a father. And I'm not moralising about marriage or anything. I understand that people split up, and marriages don't work out, and people do the best they can. But if you're going to not be there from the very beginning, then don't do it.

My parents split when I was one-year old and I haven't lived with my father since. He is a creative spirit and has always cherished his independence.

I'm well spoken, I'm pretty, I eat well. I'm a great father and a great citizen. I'm an awesome American.

I'm a first-time father, and it was amazing to me to learn that my son could actually use sign language before the spoken word. I could see this intelligence in his eyes before he could speak: how he could understand what was going on around him and was frustrated by that.

The turmoil that my dad went through, and then by extension, the kids went though, was profound and disastrous for the marriage, for the family.

Men should always change diapers. It's a very rewarding experience. It's mentally cleansing. It's like washing dishes, but imagine if the dishes were your kids, so you really love the dishes.

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.

It takes a strong man to accept somebody else's children and step up to the plate another man left on the table.

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

It is a lot of responsibility. But I enjoy being a father. Thats one of the best parts of my life. I feel like, man, thats one of the greatest things Ive got going on, being a father.

You're not a man until your father says you're a man.

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

Leading a family is the hardest job a man can ever have.

People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man.

One thing that prevents a man from being a good father is he hasn't completed being a boy.

I always knew I was going to be a family man.