Quotes About Fatherhood

Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

Fathers need to be tough and tender...you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place.

I do want children. I study dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I ever did and my brother and my sister.

My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.

I was lucky enough to have a father who said, 'Don't quit.' So I just kept going.

Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

I have one regret: I wish I was a better father.

Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.

I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.

A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

A child's cry touches a father's heart.

It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.

A father is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with snapshots of his kids.

He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex.

I have a Father's Day every day

I could only relate [to the family] that I, the father of three sons, could hardly imagine what it would be to lose one, far less three of my boys, in such a cruel and senseless manner.