Quotes About Fatherhood

Once you are a father, you have to try to be a better man than you truly are.

Now Preacher might manage a bar and hang out with men primarily, but he was unaccustomed to fathers who pushed their children out of sight. Rudely, at that. In his crowd, families were appreciated. Most of his friends were married with children, and the children were a part of everything. The women were nearly worshiped.

We've been sitting on a little news. We're having a baby." "Well, damn!" Paul said. He looked at Preacher and grinned. "You finally came through on ovulation day, huh, buddy?" He puffed up a little. "I did at that," he said, throwing his chest out. "And

As the eldest daughter, I had always been responsible for my younger siblings. Now I had to provide their food and clothing and be a second mother to them. My father was no help. He was a kind man, but he shuddered under the added responsibility. Too often I found him outside, alone with his sadness. No man was built to shoulder the full weight of feeding and caring for his family. That was why he had a wife and daughters.

He'd been raised to give women what they wanted. 'You can fight,' his father told him. 'You can bitch. If you're a real prick, you can overpower. But the pain over the long haul ... just not worth it, son. Surrender young and happily with fewer scars.' The old man was right about that.

All sorts of men don't make it home for the births of their children. But My mother was out of town on the day I was born, so she missed it, just seems . . . seems like a more profound complaint, somehow.

Some men just aren't cut for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

Why do you believe he calls you a 'whelp,' young man? Could it be because you're so like him that he's not certain whether to feel pride or to shoot you and put the world out of its misery?

And the two men walked down the street side by side, Ab Kale and his son.…

That was how I would remember my father. There was never a place he walked that was not the better for his having passed. For every tree he cut down he planted two.

He had been the best of fathers and it was never easy to be a father to strong sons growing up in a strange land, each coming to manhood, each asserting himself, loving the father yet wishing to be free of him, finding fault to make the break easier. So it had been since the world began, for the young do not remain young and the time must come when each must go out on his own grass. I

William Avery Rockefeller possessed the dash and virility that every young boy dreams of in a father.

Junior was awed by his father, whom he regarded as a marble figure on a pedestal.

He craved the love of a father who seemed too remote and too self-absorbed to attend to his boyish needs.

It was very sad to see my father cry, but I understood it, because sometimes a man has to cry. Even if he is a man.

Rahu ajal matavad lapsed isasid, kuid sõja ajal isad lapsi.

He was the child of a father who was not his father; but also the child of a time which damaged reality so badly that nobody ever managed to put it together again;

His father said to him: 'See now. You pay your way. I've made a man of you.' But what man That's what fathers never know. Not in advance. Not until it's too late

And the most gladdening thing was the discovery that even the unforgivable crime of being one's father could be forgiven, after all, in the end.

and she went on loving him, even though he had so casually abandoned her. You were my everything, she wanted to say to him, you were my sun and moon, and who will hold my head now, who will kiss my lips, who will be a father to our children, but he was a great man destined for the halls of the immortals, and these squalling brats were no more than the jetsam he let in his wake.

Kinder machen sich Phantasievorstellungen von ihren Vätern, formen sie sich nach ihren kindlichen Bedürfnissen. Die Realität eines Vaters ist eine Last, die nur wenige Söhne zu tragen vermögen.

Ahmed Sinai never forgave his son for breaking his toe. Even after the splint was removed, a tiny limp remained. My father leaned over my crib and said, "So, my son: you're starting as you mean to go on. Already you've started bashing your poor old father!" In my opinion, this was only half a joke.

Pagas lo que debes. He hecho de ti un hombre.» Pero ¿qué hombre? Eso es algo que los padres nunca saben. No lo saben de antemano; no lo saben hasta que ya es tarde.)

In 10 years, I'm gonna be all over. I'll still be doing mad music, I'll be doing a couple movies, maybe some TV. Hopefully coaching some of my son's sports teams and be in heavy daddy mode.