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Quotes About Fatherhood

I have more pictures of my children than my father ever looked at me.
~ Jim Gaffigan
In the cafe bathroom drinking free tap water Thinking; "Damn, I should've been a better father to my daughter"
~ Slug
When a father is quick to lose his tempre, his sons are fools.
~ Nachman of Breslov
What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
~ St. Catherine of Siena
Being a father kind of gives you something more to play for.
~ Stephen Curry
I'm the father of four daughters.
~ Harvey Weinstein
Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.
~ Andre Dubus
We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.
~ Barack Obama
I need to start caring about myself if I'm going to be a proper father.
~ Shannon Hoon
'My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes.
~ Eric Clapton
I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.
~ Francois Fenelon
I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.
~ Brad Pitt
Perhaps that is what it means to be a father - to teach your child to live without you.
~ Nicole Krauss
I owe my father everything.
~ Robert Carlyle
You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.
~ Sigmund Freud
I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.
~ Andy Rooney
I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.
~ Steven Spielberg
He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
~ Arthur Miller
I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.
~ Eminem
I guess I'm like any other concerned father, except that nobody else's son guns a cycle over 17 pickups without holding on to the handlebars.
~ Evel Knievel
Even my father's name is Sachin Tendulkar.
~ Sachin Tendulkar
Years later, when I asked my father, I said 'Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?' he said, son, you plum wore me out.
~ Charles Koch
When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?
~ Charles Spurgeon
Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
~ Wade Boggs