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Quotes About Fatherhood

A real man is capable of controlling himself before he controls his children.
~ Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
I changed up everything around me. I hold myself more accountable in certain situations. I try to be a better man, a better father, a better teammate.
~ Dwight Howard
Men without jobs do not form families.
~ Eleanor Holmes Norton
Children need adult men in their lives.
~ Emily Yoffe
The responsibility of a man is to lead his family.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.
~ Frank Pittman
When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm at a point in my life where I have three kids. I'm a father, and you start to take stock and measure yourself as a man and see where there's room for growth.
~ Greg Bryk
OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.
~ Linus Torvalds
Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
The brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God; and to deny the one is no less infidel than to deny the other.
~ Lyman Abbott
I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.
~ Matt Damon
I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.
~ Noel Gallagher
He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men.
~ Nora Roberts
All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it.
~ P.B. Kerr
Sports are an acceptable way for men to show emotion. A guy who won't hug his kid will slip a guy a tongue in a sports bar when his team wins.
~ Richard Jeni
The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.
~ Richard Steele
A man can never compete with a woman's father
~ Richelle Mead
Men will now get up and walk with the baby in the middle of the night, change its diapers, and give it a bottle, but in their heart of hearts they still think they shouldn't have to.
~ Rita Rudner
Some men live with an invisible limp, stagger, or drag a leg. Their sons are often angry.
~ Robert Bly
Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
My reward is just to be a better man. You're so close to losing a loved one ... the ultimate goal is to be a better daddy, a better son, a better teammate.
~ Jermaine O'Neal
I always wished my dad was there to intimidate my boyfriends or something. It's supposed to be your dad giving your guys friends the stink-eye for sneaking beer through your house, not your mom.
~ Iliza Shlesinger
I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'
~ Paul Walker