Quotes About Fatherhood

But the world hinges on good fathers and those who would be the merchants of confidence.

I don't want my kids saying, 'My dad was a gangster, so I need to be a gangster. I would rather mine say, 'My dad was a stunna, so I need to be a stunna.'

My daughter got me a 'World's Best Dad' mug. So we know she's sarcastic.

My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a 'part-time' dad.

You don't remember the times your dad held your handle bars. You remember the day he let go.

My dad was amazing. He raised five boys. All by himself. Without the rest of us knowing.

Now I'm his dad, I live for [my son]. I have a responsibility. It's a big responsibility.

I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.

Dad's especially need to remember that what they say to their daughters is written in Sharpie. It can't be erased.

When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood

My legacy to me is-when I drop dead and they're at my funeral - I want my three kids to get up and say, 'He's an awesome dad'.

Even with my daughter now, I kind of know how my dad feels.

I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, "I want a Dad." But you won't abide in anyone.

I don't want to be an old dad.

Whenever one of my children says, 'Goodnight, Daddy,' I always think to myself, 'You don't mean that.

My dad never pushed me but the big thing is that he helped me by going out in the backyard and playing with me.

My sisters and I can still recite Dad's grilling rules: Rule No. 1: Dad is in charge. Rule No. 2: Repeat Rule No. 1.

I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.

I never got into fights with kids about whose dad is bigger and who can beat up who. What am I going to say? My dad can kill your dad when he's asleep?

No word makes me happier than the word "daddy" when it's directed to me.