Quotes About Fatherhood

he had been married three times, and had fathered at least thirteen children,

It was impossible for me to thank my father; what he called my sentimentality would have exasperated him.

I can buy baseball cards to view an entire career on the back of a little square of cardboard. But nobody sells major league father cards with key statistics on the back ("Had a great season in 2005: set career highs in unforced expressions of affection and averaged 87 minutes of quality time per day.")

I want to see what that fuckin' Flowers does with his dadhood.

the sick horror of unwillingly picturing his child's death, the hollow, horrible ache standing in that place in his life where his daughter had been, and mad, acidic desire to do something more than mourn.

Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.

That was a time when a man had the right to be burried by his own son an' a son had the right to burry his own father.

Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet reading lamp.

As long as Nelson was socked into baseball statistics or that guitar or even the rock records that threaded their sound through all the fibers of the house, his occupation of the room down the hall was no more uncomfortable than the persistence of Rabbit's own childhood in an annex of his brain; but when the stuff with hormones and girls and cars and beers began, Harry wanted out of fatherhood.

happier. The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Abraham Lincoln. He once said that the best thing a man can do for his children is to love their mother.

Too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.

I want you to understand something: I am loving father who would do anything for his kids, whether they are mine or belonging to others in my family.

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

I'm a homebody. If I'm not working I'm with my family being a dad.

If I ever have a son, I would call him Frankie, and it's a family name - it's my dad and my dad's dad, so you know, it sticks. I won't forget it.

What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.

I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.

Fatherhood is a joy. I feel very lucky to have a family. It gives you a perspective on things.

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.