Quotes About Fatherhood

I have never imagined that I would get married and that I would become a father.

Honestly, in retrospect, it probably was a little easier being an adolescent and not having people immediately know that Hef was my dad.

Women have been such an important part of my life. I try, every day, to be a better father to my daughters and a better husband.

I was blessed to have my son, ZZ, doing it; he managed to pull nothing but the truth out of me. Put all that aside, and you think how strange it is to watch a movie about some small, but important, part of your life.

My son is the most important person on the planet to me.

Being a husband and a dad are the two most important things in my life.

My two sons are the most important things in the world to my wife and I - they are what I build my world around.

I try to make my kids happy, so when they grow up they can look back and see a father who did important things for their country and tried to make history.

Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much.

I have always wanted my children's dads to be involved in their lives. Not just the day-to-day aspect, but the emotional shifts that they go through, when little things pop up - they need to be included, absolutely, and for the children to feel that they are.

Ogni suo passo parlava di angoscia e di abnegazione, ed il figlio alto e lontano sentiva che non avrebbe mai potuto ripargarlo, nemmeno in parte centesimale, nemmeno col conservarsi vivo.

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly submitted; how the farce went on till the lad was bound and laid on the altar, and how God then stopped the murder, and blessed the intending murderer for his willingness to commit the crime.

Fatherhood is telling your daughter that Michael Jackson loves all his fans, but has special feelings for the ones who eat broccoli.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

I pulled the boy close to me and said you see that girl, thats my only lil girl. So if you think about huggin or kissin. Remember these words. I aint afraid to go back to prison

The son becomes the father of the man.

These words are mine, I tell them to my boys. You have walked in my footsteps, and now you walk beside me, but eventually pass me by, so that I can see you in front of me.

aware that it is the year in which he will remarry, father a new child, and vote Republican for the first time in his life.

I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.

For my father and for my son. I hope I can be half as good of a dad.

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.