Quotes About Fatherhood

My daddy didn't even sign my birth certificate. So I ain't never had his last name.

In 'Citadel,' I play a very young father. When I first signed onto 'Hunky Dory,' I was actually 18 years old.

A significant regret is that I was not as good a father as I would have ideally liked to be. I was not, I think, a bad father.

I always knew I wanted to have children. When I met my husband, Rande, I thought, 'This is the guy.' When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.

Ultimately, you are a picture of our Father God to your wife and your children. If you can be trusted, it will be easier for your spouse and your kids to trust their heavenly Father.

It takes nothing to father a child. It takes everything to be a dad.

Para um pai, querer coisas para os seus filhos não é a parte mais difícil - explicou ele.  - a parte mais difícil é convencer vocês a acreditar. Você precisa acreditar na possibilidade

I've always wanted to be a dad. I just can't wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I've become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect.

Parenthood shouldn't work this way. Fathers shouldn't get to decide if they wanted to father or not, thirteen years in. Fathers who weren't dead should do their damn job.

I shook my head. Parenthood shouldn't work this way. Fathers shouldn't get to decide if they wanted to father or not, thirteen years in. Fathers who weren't dead should do their damn job.

Many men feel hurt and rejected by the central focus that a child gains in his wife's life. Men who feel displaced, hurt, rejected, or devalued by the arrival of a child are more likely to retreat from doing housework or parenting. Their "laziness" is a protest for feeling displaced and unimportant.

Jamie was an amazing catch—or at least he would be, if he hadn't done whatever he'd done to wind up with a daughter.

fathered an out-of-wedlock child." "Well, at least he isn't shooting blanks," Grammy remarked phlegmatically. "Be careful, Allie. Make him marry you first.

When we pray as the Scriptures teach us to pray, we learn that prayer is a relationship of dependence. It is a child communicating with his or her heavenly Father.

Edmund Bridgerton had died at the age of thirty-eight. And Anthony simply couldn't imagine ever surpassing his father in any way, even in years.

For the first time in recent memory, he'd handled his daughter *exactly* right. Something about Eloise's presence had calmed him, lent him a clarity of thought he usually lacked when it came to his children. He was able to see the humor in the situation, where he usually saw nothing but his own frustration.

It was not his fault if she had misinterpreted his words and thought that he was physically unable to sire brats.

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

I could have ended up a casualty of a broken family, like so many of the kids around me in inner city Baltimore. But my life was forever changed the year I turned 10. That was the year my dad turned to Jesus.

People say 53 is too old to be a dad, but I dont think so. Its the input you have that counts, and youre more experienced and worldly-wise.

I liked the idea of being a father, to have a child, and finally Francesca arrived, and now the house is insane because she cries all day, and at night, she doesn't let us sleep.

My dad was a professional footballer before I was alive. When I was growing up, he was the one who coached and mentored me and helped me to become what I am today. Without his coaching and without his insight and the days and the hours that he put in with me, I wouldn't be the player that I am today.

I wish I knew myself, when I was playing, with the insight I gained once I found peace and distance from cricket, and fatherhood. I might have enjoyed those last years more.

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.