Quotes About Fatherhood

When you're present, be present the best you can. Like I said, we all fail. But I think from a dad standpoint, children want our time. Sometimes it might just be five minutes, and sometimes it can be a lot more, but I think they want our time and to be engaged with them and present.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university – it was commonsense.

Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub.

His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father.

This is all for Naieya (daughter), man. I will be a champion one day, I promised that to her.....And now that I have this opportunity I can't let her down.

Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

Papa wasn't man enough, couldn't stand up to his responsibilities. Instead of taking care of me, he'd rather live lavishly.

A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

Every man should see the birth of his children

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's the world coming to?

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

Real men change diapers!

Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father.

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you.

Becoming Father the Nurturer rather than just Father the Provider enables a man to fully feel and express his humanity and his masculinity. Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.

There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.