Quotes About Fatherhood

Our Father in heaven is surely on the side of fathers on earth who love their children.

I didn't always want to be a dad.

It's an ongoing joy being a dad.

He hated Harry for dumping his father even more than he hated him for cheating.

He was all smug about how he'd negotiated flexible hours so he could continue being a hands-on dad, the dad his own father never got to be, and didn't he just lap up all the praise he got for being such an involved father, and laugh sympathetically, but enjoyably, over the fact that Clementine never got any praise for being an involved mother?

then wandered off, probably to climb a ladder, because his sons had informed him that seventy was too old to climb ladders, so he liked to find excuses to climb them as often as possible.

Was there anything more attractive than a man who longed for children? Sam cleared his throat.

He would die for his daughter. But sometimes he wouldn't pick up the phone for her.

Whatever the case may be, if the father is not there for his daughter in a committed and responsible way, encouraging the development of her intellectual, professional, and spiritual side and valuing the uniqueness of her femininity, there results an injury to the daughter's feminine spirit.

A man is not entitled to be called a father merely because he once had a well-timed spasm of the loins.

The majority of fathers that I saw when I was growing up in Vancouver didn't take the responsibility to look after their kids, and I was aware that society is geared towards punishing single women.

Let's be real: dads get a bad rap in the media. We're talking Vanilla Ice's 'Ninja Rap' bad. More often than not, they're either pop lockin' Soul Train-style after learning they aren't the father, or they're selfish man-children who have more toys than brain cells.

When I became a father, I saw what passed for family entertainment. So much of it was vapid. I wanted to make things that mattered.

As a son and as a father, there are still various things that I haven't done as well as I should have - that's my dilemma and regret.

My story is comic because I've spent vast amounts of effort trying to become a Hollywood screenwriter and made no direct effort on making my son a movie actor.

Blacks as a group will never be equal while they have this situation going on, where the vast majority of children do not have fathers in the home married to their mother, involved in their lives, investing in them, investing in the next generation.

My comedy career aside, I am a father of three, a husband, a son, a brother and a vegan.

One minute, you're dropping your teenage son off to a festival, and the next, you're changing a nappy, but I love the versatility and challenge of being a father.

Man, my little boy wanted to hear some new music. So it was like, I can't just play all my music around him, so I got to go ahead and make a whole project so I can get it clean, and have a clean version of all the songs just so he can listen to my music, you feel me?

Nu exist? tat? bun, asta e regul?; nu trebuie învinuiÈ›i b?rbaÈ›ii, ci instituÈ›ia paternit??ii care e putred?. S? faci copii e foarte bine; s? ai îns? copii: ce nedreptate!

It had been my experience that fatherhood was mostly a matter of suffering the insufferable, tolerating the intolerable, and changing diapers.

But once again, Lily Anne proved that she saw things a little more clearly and shrewdly than her dunderheaded father. As I wrestled with all the concepts of foreclosure and moving and personal inconvenience, she cut right to the heart of the matter with an insight that was sharp and compelling. She bounced three times on her powerful little legs and said, "Da. Da da da." And for emphasis, she reached out and pulled on my earlobe. I

You'll remember Mark Twain's comment about his father," said Beth as they stepped off the bus. "'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'd learned in seven years.

Fathers don't ask their children's permission to marry. In any case, I'm sure they'll be delighted.