Quotes About Fatherhood

Cada padre es padre de todos los hijos; cada hijo es hijo de todos los padres.

Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.

I tell my kids, 'I'm your father, not your friend - but I'm also the best friend you're ever going to have because no one is going to care for you the way I care about you.'

Everybody wanna be a super dad and the best dad ever, but sometimes, I'm just realizing that I'm not perfect.

When your daughter asks you to be a fairy for her 5th birthday party... you better be a damned fairy.

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

A one-night stand that waited three years to tell me I had a son. I needed cash flow fast, It was time to get into the business.

When I was 13, I opened my own business called The Awesome Pretzel Company, and my dad helped me build a pretzel cart.

I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.

I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.

Enough of Jasper. It should be clear by now how he fits into the scheme of things. Lover to begin with, sparring partner always, father of my child; our lives sometimes fusing, sometimes straying apart, always connected. I loved him once, but cannot remember how that felt.

All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy, but you need a hell of a sense of humour to handle it.

Serafina said, 'Have you been married, Mr Scoresby? Have you any children?' 'No, ma'am, I have no child, though I would have liked to be a father. But I understand your question, and you're right: that little girl has had bad luck with her true parents, and maybe I can make it up to her. Someone has to do it, and I'm willing.

a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a father whose compound of ambitions, biases, and beliefs is so unruffled by careful thinking that he isn't as easy to escape from as he seems. Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons. It was our job to love them.

Cain wonders what his father had made of him at this age. The idea is startling, that he and his father might have such things in common as pleasures and annoyances of parenthood. Seldom has he let himself consider the world through his father's eyes.

How could he ever scorn Henoch? It's normal enough to grow a bit impatient with the boy from time to time. Or so he hopes. But to banish Henoch from sight, the way his own father banished him --- the very idea causes his insides to clench up. He could never do such a thing.

Only reprobates father children and then abandon them.

I want my kids to be proud of their dad and not to go to school and hear abuse. One day they will read many things about me and I would like it to be about football.

My sons have such a deep access to my heart.

Of all the success and everything we've achieved, I think I'll be a great dad.

I always admired my father because he was a man that never put on any airs, you know. And I always tried to be that kind of person.

My two sons adore me. They've made me more responsible.