Quotes About Fatherhood

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

Even my going back to school was to inspire young people that it's never too late to education. That's all I can do, and try to be the best father and husband that I can be.

Fatherhood is the greatest education a man can ever receive.

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

What makes Will the best father in the world to me is that he's there, not just there in a way that's traditional. The emotional support he offers his children is immeasurable.

The idea of Cable as a man out to protect his daughter by any means necessary gives the character an emotional heft and underlines everything he does. It's richly fulfilling.

In reality, if he had lived, I would have had a dad. And that would have been an incredible experience.

You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'

Its a rare thing when a father and son can share the same experience. My father and I have seen all 19 Bond films together, two or three times.

Fathers can find great inspiration in faith.

I could have spent time with my son instead of being played...

The best fathers not only give us life- they teach us how to live.

He had more stories of his son from a single year, I thought, than my father had of me in all eternity.

A bitter paradox, I thought: to keep his son he had to lose him.

Mas talvez nenhum pai consiga ver seus filhos de verdade. Quando olhamos, enxergamos apenas o espelho de nossas próprias falhas.

Daedalus did not long outlive his son. His limbs turned grey and nerveless, and all his strength was transmuted into smoke. I had no right to claim him, I knew it. But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near into yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.

My hands feel empty without the garland. I watch King Peleus embrace his son. I see the boy toss the garland in the air and catch it again. He is laughing, and his face is bright with victory.

Daedalus did not long outlive his son. His limbs turned grey, and all his strength was transmuted into smoke. I had no right to claim him, I knew it. But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation he was to me.

Your son is not yet a man." Tyndareus' voice seemed far away. I could detect nothing in it.

He has, Agnes sees, done what any father would wish to do, to exchange his child's suffering for his own, to take his place, to offer himself up in his child's stead so that the boy might live. She will say all this to her husband, later, after the play has ended, after the final silence has fallen, after the dead have sprung up to take their places in the line of players at the edge of the stage.

He is momentarily filled with a kind of pity for his son. What a task lies ahead of him: to learn literally everything.

He has, Agnes sees, done what any father would wish to do, to exchange his child's suffering for his own, to take his place, to offer himself up in his child's stead so that the boy might live.

Pourquoi me dis-tu ça ? - Parce que tu es mon fils et que je te connais comme si je t'avais fait.

I gave up pouring my heart out to his personal assistant a long time ago. Talking to the man himself is damn near impossible. Always on a business trip or in a meeting. No way he'd make time for his daughter.