Quotes About Fatherhood

Real Fathers make a positive impact on their generation, and so give the next generation the advantage of a better nation to live in

Loving fathers give their children boundaries so they won't get hurt and can live with peace and purpose.

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

We have to have positive male role models.

Most kids would be like, 'My dad's never around.' But I saw it as a positive. He was out there working to provide for me.

Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home.

Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas, a young writer originally from Boston who was now living and teaching in New York. Man Gone Down is another big, ambitious novel—about race, the American Dream, fatherhood, money, and love.

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son. The

His father had a dream: to keep his hands forever clean. Joey wasn't clear whether his father had ever understood that it takes a lot of digging in the dirt to do that.

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

Meloux had never seen his own son. Never carried him on his shoulders or held him when he cried. Never felt the small boy's breath, warm and sweet smelling, break against his face. Never knew the pleasures of being for his son the slayer of monsters imagined in the night.

Every father knows the disconcerting when you see your child as a weird, distorted double of yourself. It is as if for a moment your identities overlap. You see an idea, a conception of your boyish inner self...made real and flesh. He is you restarted, rewound; at the same time he is as foreign and unknowable as any other person.

Studies have shown that fathers of murdered children often die within a few years of the murder, often of heart failure. Really, they die of grief.

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

I'm turning into a stricter dad.

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God.

In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.

Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.

God Himself was crucified with Christ, for Christ was one with the Father.

Fatherhood has taught me when it's too quiet my kids are usually sinning. God the Father knows the same. Are you praying?

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.