Quotes About Fatherhood

My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13.

One of the things I am very aware of not having in my life is the love of my father. ...but I know now that it is hard to make up that loss in the life of a daughter. It's your dad who tells you that you are beautiful. Its your dad who picks you up over his head and carries you on his shoulders. It's your did who will fight the monsters under your bed. It's your dad who tells you that you are worth a lot, so don't settle for the first guy who tells you you're pretty.

Well, my daddy left home when I was three,And didn't leave much to Ma and me,Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.Now I don't blame him because he run and hid,But the meanest thing he ever did wasBefore he left, he went and named me Sue.

Mace let out an exasperated sigh. "It's bad enough we have the baby. Which I was accepting of because he's mine." "That's real big of ya, hoss.

But my pretty little Gwen…me and her daddy…" Then she purred. Seriously. Purred.

The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I bet your other family is really thrilled.

Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity.

My beautiful son... I can't wait to see his face, hug him, and spend time with him.

People ask me if I ever see my father and I say yes, because he puts in the effort. He calls all the time to tell us he's proud of us.

My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.

I'm a good dad I spend a lot of time with my kids.

My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond, ' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.

And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.

I retired at age 40 because my daughters looked at me one day and said: 'Dad, being bald and wearing shorts doesn't look good together'.

As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.

When I was young, before school, my father would wake me up and we would go running together. A love of being physical, being active and being outside was something he instilled in me.

When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening.

Pero algunas lecciones hay que aprenderlas con el corazón también para entenderlas de verdad. Es muy fácil ser madre o padre antes de tener hijos.

Chance planned to live in such a way that his son would grow up to be a strong, wise, honorable, faithful man. And the only way Chance knew to teach that was to be such a man himself.

When a man beats his boy, he wants a son who won't buck him. He's trying to make a coward. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it works. And the hundredth boy? We can go either way. Kill the old man, or try to become a better one.

My father, the late and unlamented fifth viscount, was a bit of a bastard. He had one child, me, and he did not want a gay son. He made that very clear.

My little girls can break my heart. They can make me cry just looking at them eating their string beans.

think people whose fathers aren't there—and whose mothers are feeling really bitter about their fathers' not being there—what they absorb is how terrible that guy was and you don't want to be like that guy. In

A man who is a good lover to his wife is his children's best friend.… Child care is play to a woman who is happy. And only a man can make a woman happy. In deepest truth, a father's first duty to his children is to make their mother feel fulfilled as a woman.