Quotes About Fatherhood

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

I don't like dating or just living with a woman. I like to create a relationship, a marriage. And almost all of my marriages have involved children, so I'm really a family man as well.

I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.

I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.

The stories of young men searching for their fathers are the stories of young men who through their adventures father themselves by doing for themselves what they hoped a father would do for them. ("Anthropology: What Is Lost In Rotation")

You can't wait until your son is old enough to throw a football to become an involved father. If you want him to enjoy playing catch with you when he's ten, you have to start enjoying him when he's a baby. (The same goes for girls, including the part where they'll need a baseball glove.)

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

'Tis a happy thingTo be the father unto many sons.

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

All his words and actions would now be fit for his daughter's ears and eyes. Life would be lived as if under [her] constant scrutiny. He would never do anything that might cause her pain or anxiety or embarrassment and there would be nothing, absolutely nothing in his life to be ashamed of anymore.

Dads had favourite armchairs in which they sat like starship captains, issuing orders and receiving cups of tea and shouting at the news without fear of contradiction.

He had always imagined that some sort of emotional mental equipment was meant to arrive, when he was forty-five, say, or fifty, a kind of kit that would enable him to deal with the impending loss of a parent. If he were only in possession of this equipment, he would be just fine. He would be noble and selfless, wise and philosophical. Perhaps he would even have kids of his own, and would presumably possess the kind of maturity that comes with fatherhood, the understanding of life as a process.

Mi padre me enseñó que un padre puede llorar delante de sus hijos, que eso otorga un valor a las lágrimas que los niños no conocen, porque los lloros infantiles son siempre caprichosos, intrascendentes, oportunistas. Pero las lágirmas de un padre son de plomo

A father's love was special; a black father's love was a blessing– I knew this because of how I felt about being able to experience my own father's love.

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

He's alright. He's fine," Dad says, his usual line whenever Oliver gets hurt. It means: Go away. Don't baby him. Don't show too much compassion. The other dads do this too. It's some kind of group hysteria, based on some fatherly fear that says compassion equals homosexuality.

He's all right. He's fine," Dad says, his usual line whenever Oliver gets hurt. It means: Go away. Don't baby him. Don't show too much compassion. The other dads do this too. It's some kind of group hysteria, based on some fatherly fear that says compassion equals homosexuality.

Count your blessings take care of the people you love.'Happy father's day to all the greatest POP, DAD, KIN in the world.

Las amistades y los amores son temporales; el amor de un padre hacia su hijo, y viceversa, es eterno porque se manifiesta mucho después de la muerte de ambos, en lo que han puesto en marcha mientras vivían y cuyo eco resuena en el tiempo.

tout ça vient parce que il est le père des caresses. Il a un mot pour chacun :

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.