Quotes About Fatherhood

According to most studies on the subject, boys who grow up without fathers grow up at a disadvantage.

As a father, you want the best for your son, quite obviously. You want to create the best memories for your son.

Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.

I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father.

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

The only thing my dad taught me, was how to survive and that was by him not being there. A man made me, mummy raised me.

Boys who see their fathers beat their mothers will likely grow up to be men who beat their wives.

Just us two men," my father said, my father who had so longed for a son that he had flown paper planes--adoption forms in triplicate--all the way to Africa to make his dream come true.

Just us two men," my father said, my father who had so longed for a son that he had flown paper plans--adoption forms in triplicate--all the way to Africa to make his dream come true.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.

We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead.

When you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship.

A dad is someone who wants to catch you before you fall but instead picks you up, brushes you off, and lets you try again.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Fathers should teach their sons how to earn money because mothers teach their daughters how to spend it.

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man

Penny's bowels yearned over his son. He gave him something more that his paternity. He found that the child stood wide-eyed and breathless before the miracle of bird and creature, of flower and tree, of wind and rain and sun and moon, as he had always stood. And if, on a soft day in April, the boy had prowled away on his boy's business, he could understand the thing that had drawn him. He understood, too, its briefness.

As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not to say they're not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same.