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Quotes About Paternity

Could it be that the great Bonaparte is incapable of fathering a child? that it is not I who am at fault but you?
~ Carolly Erickson
All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes
~ George RR Martin
It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
~ Mark Twain
Aha! Lassiter pointed at the boob tube. You motherfucker! I knew you were the father!
~ J.R. Ward
Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father.
~ Sarah Michelle Gellar
and Cristóvão Rebêlo, his illegitimate son.
~ Laurence Bergreen
The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false virtue stimulate them to manufacture cannon fodder, anthills of conscripts who are forced to sell themselves out of poverty. This improvident paternity is a false virtue, the selfishness of pleasure.
~ Charles Fourier
We know taking care of an infant isn't just women's work - so why should maternity leave be the norm when paternity leave is the exception? There's no question that taking care of and bonding with a new baby is just as important and meaningful for dads as it is for moms.
~ Randi Weingarten
My father, that silhouette, a form comprised of all I did not know, a shape filled with rain. Whenever I asked, she'd say, 'You had no father. I'm your father. You sprang full-blown from my forehead, like Athena.
~ Janet Fitch
There's a lot to do when you have a baby. The first thing, which is taking me a really long time: I have to figure out who the father is.
~ Heidi Joyce
Thirty-seven years later I found out for whom he had been searching: Charlotte Lobjoie, a woman who had born him a son, Jean Marie, in March 1918.40
~ Heinz Linge
After two weeks of paternity leave post-birth, (my husband) goes back to work before tying up loose ends to take ten weeks off to care for his baby. He has a big shiny job at one of the country's most profitable companies, but a dad taking time out, fully paid, to look after his child is recognised as something that's important and so is encouraged.
~ Helen Russell
The daddy-at-home theory posits that concealed ovulation evolved to promote monogamy, to force the man to stay home, and thus to bolster his certainty about his paternity of his wife's children. The many-fathers theory instead posits that concealed ovulation evolved to give the women access to many sex partners and thus to leave many men uncertain as to whether they sired her children.
~ Jared Diamond
Psychoanalysis overturned. Instead of the dream being the fulfilment of desires unsatisfied in real life, real life would be the site where desires born of dreams were fulfilled. Instead of being the dumping-ground of the unconscious, dreams would be the matrices of real events - thus becoming like the 'dream' of the Aborigines, for whom a child has to be dreamt before he can be begotten, 'real' paternity being merely the fulfilment of the dream.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Sir, this young fellow's mother could: whereupon she grew round-wombed, and had, indeed, sir, a son for her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed. Do you smell a fault?
~ William Shakespeare
ten or twelve men, especially between brothers and between fathers and sons; but the offspring of these unions are counted as the children of the man with whom a particular woman cohabited first.
~ Winston S. Churchill
I already was supporting them generously by law, but if Mia was right about Satchel being the son of Frank Sinatra, then I was really being bilked.
~ Woody Allen
Sex is not a discrete body of knowledge that can be isolated from the rest of life. Talking about sex implies talking about relationships, self-esteem, feminism and femininity, gender differences, marriage and maternity, men and paternity.
~ Unknown
Nu exist? tat? bun, asta e regul?; nu trebuie învinuiÈ›i b?rbaÈ›ii, ci instituÈ›ia paternit??ii care e putred?. S? faci copii e foarte bine; s? ai îns? copii: ce nedreptate!
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
And then he realized—it had to be Tom Bradshaw's father.
~ Jeffrey Archer
Emma could be the offspring of the same father. At
~ Jeffrey Archer
A one-night stand that waited three years to tell me I had a son. I needed cash flow fast, It was time to get into the business.
~ Hank Williams III
Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Why do females lie about being pregnant and lie about the baby daddy?
~ Unknown