Quotes About Fatherhood

There did not breathe a father on earth who cared less for himself or his own position.

Having a comfortable allowance from his father, he could devote the whole proceeds of his curacy to violet gloves and unexceptionable neck ties.

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

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

It is an easy matter, Olav, to be a good Christian so long as God asks no more of you than to hear sweet singing in church, and to yield Him obedience while He caresses you with the hand of a father. But a man's faith is put to the test on the day God's will is not his.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

And he watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me, and consoled me as a father would his son. Therefore, indeed, I cannot keep silent, nor would it be proper, so many favours and graces has the Lord deigned to bestow on me in the land of my captivity.

I can't get over this. Dad isn't Sam's dad? Dad is a friend? How was I supposed to know that? People shouldn't be allowed to sign themselves as Dad unless they are your dad. It should be the law.

Seeing nothing, children, knowing nothing, I became your father

Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father.

I've been a dad since I was nineteen, so I think a lot about fatherhood and the power of that sacrifice in your life.

I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I'm so stoked my life panned out how it was.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons.

The day my son was born my life changed completely.

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.

I always thought that family was the most important thing in life, and no matter what I do, whether being a chef or an actor or a dancer, being a dad is what I do best.

Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids—not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us.

In a proud fatherly sadomasicisticly way, I am thrilled when I get hit. As every deep purple bruise on my body represented a perfect swing. If I were to lift my shirt at any time there would be 4-5 bruises on my body. ... As soon as I was able to, I would throw batting practice again from the short distance, and take another shot if necessary to keep the boys in the zone.

One night a father overheard his son pray: "Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is." Later that night, the father prayed, "Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be." —Anonymous

A famous cigarette billboard pictures a curly-headed, bronze-faced, muscular macho with a cigarette hanging out the side of his mouth. The sign reads 'Where a man belongs.' That is a lie. Where a man belongs is at the bedside of his children, leading in devotion and prayer. Where a man belongs is leading his family to the house of God. Where a man belongs is up early and alone with God seeking vision and direction for the family.

God designed human fatherhood to be a portrait of himself.

For truthfully, Your Honors, if a man can love his daughter and she love him in return, with honesty and restraint, then what act, what station, can we aspire to . . . that would be more civilized than that?

coming home early only when his loneliness for a brief glimpse of his daughter, or a word with her, made it impossible for him to stay away.