Quotes About Fatherhood

Man-made laws assure justice, but a higher law produces love. No code of conduct ever persuaded a father to love his children or a husband to show affection to his wife.

NURSE. There, there, there. A father has something besides his child, but a mother has nothing but her child. CAPTAIN.

a man must take his children on trust—isn't that what Goethe says?* CAPTAIN

I was desperate to show him what I could do on my own. But my father, because he hadn't been there, simply didn't believe what I was actually capable of accomplishing.

My dad kept giving me love pats. Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are administered on the knee, shoulder, and arm.

My dad said I couldn't drive until the weather cleared up, and it finally did a little bit yesterday. I made a mix tape for the occasion. It is called "The First Time I Drove." Maybe I'm being too sentimental, but I like to think that when I'm old, I will be able to look at all these tapes and remember those drives.

I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.

A boy does not need a father unless he is a good father, but a good father is indispensable.

He had accessorized his life with everything but paternal instinct.

We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.

I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and beautiful, and who are therefore aliens in this popular culture.

What I love most about fatherhood is the opportunity to be a part of the development process of a new life.

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

If you had to chose one half of your son, which one would it be?" What kind of a question is that?!" No need to snap. It was just a question.

I'm the fun dad, I am also the disciplinarian.

More my son, I found myself thinking. You were never really there for him. Not emotionally. You were just the absence he was always striving to impress.

Had he actually possessed the ability simply to airbrush an entire daughter out of his conscience?

I know my son." "Our son." "Yes. Our son." More my son, I found myself thinking. You were never really there for him. Not emotionally. You were just the absence he was always striving to impress.

Ever boy deserves a father.

took his son's hands in

Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.

I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.