Fatherhood Quotes

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

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.

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

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.

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

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

It is impossible to overstate the need for prayer in the fabric of family life.

With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught me patience. They've also taught me that I don't need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme.

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.

The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything.

I think I know how to raise a kid. You just play catch with 'em. You just talk about life, and you distract them by throwing the ball. They don't even notice that you're filling up their heads with your theories.

The first idea of Captain Fantastic was a pretty radically different one. The genesis had to do with parenting and questions about parenthood and fatherhood specifically. I have two kids and I was grappling with what my values were and what I wanted to pass to my children. So I was positing different kinds of parents and different ways of parenting. I played with various ideas - very permissive parenting, very restrictive parenting and then I came up with the character of Viggo Mortensen, and much of it was aspirational, some of it was autobiographical.

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

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

My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.

On Father's Day, we pay tribute to all in our society who have taken on the responsibilities and joys of fatherhood. Whether our fathers are near at hand or a continent away, with their families or watching from the light of eternity, we take this day to remember them, to say our thanks for the years they have given us, and to ask that they receive God's blessings.

The U.S. is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his or her father. Today an American child can reasonably expect not to. Fatherlessness is now approaching a rough parity with fatherhood as a defining feature of American childhood.

I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

My dad came over to the house... went into his pocket and pulled out a handful of money, and began to pass it out to the children... This was the same man who, when I was his child, I would ask him for 50 cents, this man would tell me his life's story.

My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.

The biggest myth about fatherhood that you get given a direct phone number to talk to Santa and tell him how your kid has been behaving. Absolute bullshit. I got an email address and it's just giving me an out of office reply.

Universal brotherhood under the fatherhood of God.

Fatherhood is telling your daughter that Michael Jackson loves all his fans, but has special feelings for the ones who eat broccoli.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about 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.

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.

What happened to our friendship? I really think it's our obligation as friends to be brutally honest and be frank with them and say, 'Look, I'm sorry, but your baby is fking boring.'

Jesse Jackson also said he thought Barack Obama was talking down to black people by lecturing them on things like fatherhood and being a responsible husband. Jesse thought it was insulting, not only to him, but to his former mistress and their love child.

Not all Masons are obligated on the Christian Bible. Masonry is universal and men of every creed are eligible for membership so long as they accept the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. Therefore, the candidate should be obligated on the Book of the Sacred Law which he accepts as such since his obligation is a solemn and binding one.

You can tell what was the best year of your father's life, because they seem to freeze that clothing style and ride it out.

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

It's a great joy but no test of love or commitment to take your son to a ball game. You really prove your credentials as a good dad when you are willing to take your daughter shopping - more than once.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in upholding these principles and our enemies are attacking them.

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

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

It's sort of irritating now - people always ask me, "You're a dad, and how's fatherhood?" If Bob Dylan or Neil Young had a kid, it didn't seem like it made them a different person. It didn't make you old right away.

So my reaction to hearing this corny-ass, horrible song ["With Arms Wide Open" by Creed] is violent, uncontrollable, sustained weeping.

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

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

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.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

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