Quotes About Responsibility

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

My father told me, never have partners.

Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.

The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

The most important thing about being a father is being able to forgive yourself. If you don't forgive yourself, you're not going to forgive your kids, either.

My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.

No child can repay his father unless he finds him enslaved and then buys him and sets him free.

As time goes on you are given responsibility and other things to deal with. You become a husband and a father and there's another shirt of stuff.

My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it.

Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

I'm an actor, a husband, a father of two, and a full-time Avenger.

Being a father is the most important role I will ever play and if I don't do this well, no other thing I do really matters.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.