Quotes About Fatherhood

Being a father brings with it a lot of responsibilities, just like being a goalkeeper does.

I never got on the course with my dad, but to be playing golf with my kids - that's a dream.

I know I haven't spent a lot of time with my children because my job takes me all over the world and takes me away from my children, but I've given them a good education and security. If anything happens to me, my children's future is well-secured. So I think I've done well as a father.

I'm going to obviously do my best as a father to set a good example for my children, and I want them to see good examples from our leaders.

Like most fathers, I would do anything for my children, and I've worked very hard at trying to be a good father. I want to give them education, security, everything I never had.

My most important legacy is being a good father to my two children.

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.

I think I would make a good father. I'd be a disciplinarian.

I am a good father in real life, that's why I'm able to play a good father on screen so convincingly.

Hopefully I'm going to be a good father. I'm going to try and give my best.

All I want to do now is meet someone, get married, have a big family, be a good father. I have never made any secret of that but the problem is finding someone.

Anybody can be a dad. I just want to be a good parent. I want to be a dad that my kids can talk to. I want to have a relationship with them.

My father left when I was really young, but he's still living. There are things I wish I'd said that I didn't and I don't think I'll ever get the opportunity to say. He's battled addiction problems his entire life. I wish things were different. I wish there were a way my son could know him, know the good parts of him.

My dad brought me up to be a good person.

My biological father and I had a really good relationship at one point. He was one of my close friends and gave me wonderful advice.

I think we as fathers have to say good things about our children or else they will beat us.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

You cannot always depend on prayers to be answered the way you want them answered but you can always depend on God. God, the loving Father often denies us those things which in the end would prove harmful to us. Every boy wants a revolver at age four, and no father yet has ever granted that request. Why should we think God is less wise? Someday we will thank God not only for what He gave us, but also for that which He refused.

He has mercy on those who fear Him, from generation to generation." Fear is here understood as filial, that is, a shrinking from hurting one who is loved. Such is the fear a son has for a devoted father and the fear a Christian has of Christ. Fear is here related to love.

Tanned skin was also unacceptable, particularly in the South. "Remember…not to go out without your bonnet because it will make you very ugly and then we should not love you so much," wrote Thomas Jefferson, demonstrating once again that he could always find just the wrong thing to say to a devoted daughter.

I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.

Our Father's commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our lives, but He also brightens our summers.

I was fortunate to have a dad who was very involved, very present, very wise.