Quotes About Becoming A Father

#1. I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

Ted Cruz

#2. Why can't one stop being a son without becoming a father?

Philip Larkin

#3. Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

John Green

#4. Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

Christoph Waltz

#5. Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.

Laurence Fox

#6. It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up.

Tony Parsons

#7. Becoming a father has made my life a lot more interesting. It's like everything slows down because time goes slower, and you notice that you're actually awake for so many more hours. Your waking hours elongate because you're doing things at a child's pace.

Aidan Gillen

#8. Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.

Hugh Jackman

#9. I never thought I had to forge a family, but it felt the most natural thing that ever happened to me - meeting someone and becoming a father.

Jude Law

#10. Becoming a father has definitely heightened my discomfort with uncertainty. I want to be able to say, I know what will happen, when, why. But most of the time, we just don't know.

Michael Adam Hamilton

#11. I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

Brad Pitt

#12. I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.

B. D. Wong

#13. The fame aspect of winning the Masters ... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.

Mike Weir

#14. My biggest achievement - besides being drafted into the NBA - was becoming a father. Being a father has made me experience things that have contributed to my maturity and personal growth.

Dwyane Wade

#15. This is not to say that becoming a father automatically makes you a good father. Fatherhood, like marriage, is a constant struggle against your limitations and self-interests. But the urge to be a perfect father is there, because your child is a perfect gift.

Kent Nerburn

#16. Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Abraham Maslow

#17. I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.

Rafe Spall

#18. I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.

Francois Arnaud

#19. I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.

Asa Larsson

#20. It's not like you're becoming a born-again Christian or teetotal or an accountant or something you can stop being after a while. You'll never not be a father now.'
'It feels great, Rob' he said. 'Just great.

Tim Relf

#21. And you dared to go counter to your father's wishes? They should have been a command to you. Give me one reason, only one, why, flinging decency to the winds, you demeaned yourself by becoming a baker.'
'Hunger.

W. Somerset Maugham

#22. Getting married and becoming the father of young children has taught me that I am a narcissist. The good news is that I am a really great, really important, and really special narcissist.

Jim Gaffigan

#23. Pressure is always a part of a racing driver's life, but my father helped me a lot on my way to becoming a F1 driver.

Nico Rosberg

#24. I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.

George Papandreou

#25. O God and Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, forgive me for becoming so enthralled with my surroundings that I forget to look up and gaze into Thy face. The radiance of Thy face is all I really need. Amen.

A.W. Tozer

#26. I think my wife understood from the day I met her how important she was to me and how important it was for me becoming a husband and a father.

Frank Abagnale

#27. Real Womanhood isn't a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.

Ann Voskamp

#28. One of the main problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broadminded and well-adjusted family can't cope with.

Douglas Adams

#29. You should thank me for tolerating you. I had hoped that becoming a royal would cure your foul manners."
"That's interesting. My father hoped that stripping me of royalty would do the same thing.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#30. No, you become a man when you first decide to put away the things of childhood, the talk of childhood, and the thoughts of childhood. You decide because you cannot be treated as both a man and a boy. Because you are either one or the other, but you are not both ...

Carew Papritz

#31. Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

Craig T. Nelson

#32. As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the Paulist Fathers for two years after high school in full anticipation of becoming a priest.

Bob Gunton

#33. My mother was asked to be a model when she was younger, but my father had not let her, so she was quite keen on me becoming a model. I just went off without telling my dad. I took off to Paris and never came back, but when I became a success and started making money, he was very proud of me.

Jerry Hall

#34. Cal 's eyes reflected a weird combination of frenzy and fear as he twisted toward his father. My God!
She's on her way to becoming the most famous physicist in the country, and she's dumb as a post ! You are not having your baby in this house! You're having it at the county hospital!

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#35. When Mary arrived, I felt a mixture of emotions, including panic and overwhelming love. I felt a great sense of responsibility, not just towards my child but also towards her father. There have been many influences on my life, but that thing of finally becoming a family person was the greatest.

Diana Quick

#36. The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation.

Ronald Reagan

#37. Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.

Martin Yan

#38. My success has a lot to do with my private life. I've matured a lot by first becoming a husband and now a father. My life is in the right direction. And that helps a player to thrive. One thing is linked with the other. My private life has helped me.

Novak Djokovic

#39. I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.

Zach Braff

#40. When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

Judy Blume

#41. Can you become a man without becoming your father?

Hisham Matar

#42. Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

Carew Papritz

#43. While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.

Shawn Amos