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Quotes About Fatherhood

You can have fun with a son, But you got to be a father to a girl.
~ Oscar Hammerstein II
Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I don't know my biological father. That could have had a huge impact on my life had it not been for the fact that my dad married my mom when I was one and raised me as his own.
~ Rosario Dawson
Mom, thank you. Mr. Palmer, my father I never had, thank you for teaching me what it is to be a man.
~ Ray Rice
It's not easy for you, Dad You seek your own space You slope off to watch telly But still see (Mom's Mum's Mam's) face
~ John Walter Bratton
Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; - but the father, for love!
~ Octavius Winslow
I didn't spend money on nothin'. Besides my daughter, bucket hats, and weed.
~ Schoolboy Q
My legitimate kids are Dalma and Giannina. The rest are a product of my money and mistakes.
~ Diego Maradona
I took my son to Coney island, I said "wanna go in the crazy house?", he said "save your money we'll be home soon"!
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.
~ Andre Dubus III
Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.
~ Warren Farrell
Many Christians have no understanding of God's fatherhood
~ Sunday Adelaja
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
~ Harmon Killebrew
Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
~ David Gottesman
My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.
~ Luther Vandross
When in many societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, I am one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and I'm proud of it.
~ Ziauddin Yousafzai
She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father.
~ Ziauddin Yousafzai
Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
~ Patricia Hill Collins
When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.
~ Jeffrey Tambor
I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.
~ Ted Demme
The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.
~ Lenny Bruce
I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.
~ Tom Cruise
Fathers be good to your daughters, daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers, who turn into mothers, so mothers be good to your daughters, too.
~ John Mayer