Fatherhood Quotes

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?

Just as a father feels it is all ending and his children are off to start their own families, a new role begins. In midlife, Dad may experience his second "fatherhood" as a grandparent.

Being a dad is more important than football.

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever.

Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven.

I don't think fatherhood's changed me so much as it's conjured protective instincts I've had all along.

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Fatherhood: How God blesses you out of your selfishness and floods your soul with love, all while reminding you how little you know.

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

There's nothing more life-changing than fatherhood.

Fatherhood makes you cute. Women find bumbling fathers cute and attractive.

Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.

Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.

And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently

Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.

I'm about to turn 48, and I think that the closer I get to 50, the more I might be interested in fatherhood. But honestly, I'm not grown up yet myself.

I love it. I hate that word (fatherhood), but I love being a father; it's changed everything in so many ways.

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.

But for fatherhood advice, try to look your child in the eye.... Get to know their name; that becomes important when you want something. And remember to feed them. That's about all you need.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

A father is a man who fails every day.

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers.

I am very much enjoying the fatherhood phase of my life.

Fatherhood is asking your son to make up a name rather than tell anybody who he is.

Fatherhood is the most amazing thing that could ever have happened in my life.

The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a social role for men.

Fatherhood is a joy. I feel very lucky to have a family. It gives you a perspective on things.

When rappers call each other son it leads me to believe they don't take fatherhood very seriously.

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity.

I've been a dad since I was nineteen, so I think a lot about fatherhood and the power of that sacrifice in your life.

Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying.

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.

Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently its the most difficult thing in the world.

Fatherhood isn't always a planned thing, but when it happens you just do it. It's very natural and in that sense it's not really difficult.

Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe.

The brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God; and to deny the one is no less infidel than to deny the other.

Of course there were areas of safety; nothing could get at me if I curled up on my father's lap, holding his ear with one thumb tucked into it... All about him was safe.

Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees".

I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

Of all the things I have been privileged to do and experience in life, the highest honor has been fatherhood. Wishing Fathers everywhere a wonderful day.

That really is the best part of being a dad. You remember what's important in life.