Quotes About Paternity

It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.

You say that you have a dog. Yes, a villain of a one, said Ctesippus. And he has puppies? Yes, and they are very like himself. And the dog is the father of them? Yes, he said, I certainly saw him and the mother of the puppies come together. And is he not yours? To be sure he is. Then he is a father, and he is yours; ergo, he is your father, and the puppies are your brothers.

I'm sorry, Anna, but I…Anna, I just can't picture a baby at the end of all this. I'm sorry. I just cannot." His voice had risen, but now it was a whisper. "Especially not another man's baby…especially not that.

You bloody bastard!" he said under his breath. "You knew, you knew all along!" That infuriated him almost more than the horrifying revelation of his own paternity. His stepfather, whom he'd loved, whom he'd trusted more than anyone on earth—Lord John bloody Grey—had lied to him his whole life! Everyone had lied to him. Everyone.

would be important to ascertain whether a man's son was his own through a wife's purity, but where marriage was not involved it was

Have you had your first baby yet? I might have one myself, once they find a way for the man to carry it around the first nine months.

I would love every dad to experience paternity or just time off to enjoy the special moments and build a lasting relationship with their children.

I felt ridiculous," Prowse says of Vader's paternity revelation. "I thought I was saying one thing and here they have me saying another.

the male desire to control women's sexual activity can be traced to efforts to ensure paternity. This impulse lurks behind even the most extreme or bizarre expressions of religious obsession, misogyny, and sexual repression.

king who had sons by more than one woman, leading to uncertainty about which of them would succeed him.

it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free.

It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

Just because the kid's cute, doesn't mean you're not the father.

I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella.

A man could love a woman but she would never be his be-all and end-all, though a clever man might let her think she was, of course. But nature would always out. The mother of the main children must be taken care of at all costs and a man had to know that any children he was bringing up were his own. No cuckoos in the fucking nest to grow and betray you at some point. You had to be careful.

took no chances with Caesarion, given his supposed paternity. Now aged sixteen, he was killed.

When she's gone, Tom dares to look at Sam and then the ultrasound photo again. "You've fathered the elephant man. Someone has to tell her.

Czar Alexander is my baby daddy.

Noel, I want you to see if you can get me paternity insurance," he said not long after Edward's troubles. "Paternity insurance? David, I don't think there is such a thing." "Well, there should be. Look into it. I need to protect my penis.

She stepped back, his hand left suspended in the gap between them, and demanded, "Did you get Lily pregnant?

Mame Dennis: That's a B. It's the first letter of a seven-letter word that means your father.