Quotes About Fatherhood

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.

I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like I wasn't appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.

A man doesn't need to be flawless to be a perfect father, but the commitment to his family is a precious responsibility.

...Being a father is the most exciting, amazing thing that ever happened to me.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.

Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.

Be a father, if not, why bother, son? A boy can make 'em, but a man can raise one. If you did it, admit it and stick with it.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.

I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

The most important thing about being a father is being able to forgive yourself. If you don't forgive yourself, you're not going to forgive your kids, either.