Top 100 Quotes About Fatherhood
#1. Fatherhood surprised him pleasantly. As a male he assumed no unpleasant duties would accrue to him. He would be responsible for teaching the child conversational skills once it reached its teens.
Nell Zink
#2. The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
Jorge Luis Borges
#3. You know you are getting old when yesterday turns out to be a fading memory you have difficulties recollecting, when today becomes a challenge that is hard to grasp and when tomorrow promises an uncertainty that you dread encountering.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#4. Every dad, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his fatherhood, can learn ways to become an even better dad.
Jack Baker
#5. There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?
Will Smith
#7. What I love most about fatherhood is the opportunity to be a part of the development process of a new life.
Seal
#8. The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God.
Charles Webster Leadbeater
#9. When faced with first time fatherhood at the age of 49, I didn't know whether to celebrate with champagne ... or hemlock.
Len Filppu
#10. The task of being right is a task the father perfects over time.
Ben Marcus
#11. As long as man loves a phantom in the sky more than he loves his fellow man, there will never be peace upon this earth; so long as man worships a Tyrant as the "Fatherhood of God," there will never be a "Brotherhood of Man.
Joseph Lewis
#12. Nothing crushes the soul of a father more than the loss of the beloved son he failed to lavish his love on.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#13. A 'good' father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a 'good' father who is also a 'brave' father will let the children without cultivate the child within.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#14. [Flowy]'d undertaken this mainly because he'd known that going to public school, with girls, would sentence him to fatherhood by age sixteen, and he wanted to evade that pattern, one from which he himself had been born.
Jeff Hobbs
#15. No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#16. Our Father GOD is the measure by which we know the shortcomings of earthly dads and earthly clergy; for their vocation is to be His image on earth. GOD allows them to fail so that we might seek perfect fatherhood in Him.
Scott Hahn
#17. An enlightened society is one where all people - the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the black and the white, men and women - live happily as children of the same Lord. Thus experiencing the brotherhood of men under the fatherhood of God.
Pandurang Shastri Athavale
#18. He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorrows, he had had a fair share of joys and these were ever fresh and accessible.
Evelyn Waugh
#19. Republicans are all about Old Glory and school prayer and the sanctity of marriage and the Fatherhood of God but when it comes to actually needing help from them, you shouldn't get your hopes up. They might send an ambulance or they might just send a Get Well card.
Garrison Keillor
#20. A father teaches his children that the battle is not determined by the enemy that stands around them, but by the God Who stands within them. And that lesson can only be driven home as they watch their father stand around them, while God stands within their father.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#21. 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.
Pete Wentz
#22. Fatherhood is a joy. I feel very lucky to have a family. It gives you a perspective on things.
David Harewood
#23. It is not for nothing that the king of a commonwealth is called "Sire"; humanly speaking, of the callings of fatherhood and kingship, the deeper and more primordial is fatherhood.
J. Budziszewski
#25. I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!
Rich Sommer
#26. Being a father is a choice. Staying true to fatherhood is a duty.
Joan Ambu
#27. The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it.
Steve Farrar
#28. It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.
Blair Underwood
#29. Our prayer should address our Father with the complete understanding of God's fatherhood
Sunday Adelaja
#30. If there's a perk to having such a fucked up father, it's that he's in no position to judge.
Jonathan Tropper
#31. Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command ... but ... attempts ... to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the created world, placing in doubt the truth about God who is Love and leaving man with only a sense of the master-slave relationship.
Pope John Paul II
#32. 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.
Christopher Meloni
#33. A father should do more - a father should give more to his children than he takes.
Rick Riordan
#34. You cannot begin to understand the failure of marriage - or the living of these ideas commitment or covenant - without considering and factoring in the devaluing of fatherhood. The two are inextricably linked and dependent.
H. Kirk Rainer
#35. As a Father, I willingly nurture & protect the Soul's of all those - I love.
Eleesha
#36. I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of tawny hair on his forehead?
Philippa Gregory
#37. Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the house, as if it's part of the collective brain that was further enhanced by eighth-grade shop class.
Bob Newhart
#38. Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.
Jeffrey Kluger
#40. Incidentally, I have also learned a bit about the importance of avoiding feminine embarrassment ('Daddy,' wrote Sophia when she enrolled at the New School where I teach, 'people will ask "why is old Christopher Hitchens kissing that girl?"') and shall now cease and desist.
Christopher Hitchens
#41. Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub.
Irene Dunne
#42. Every man, who desires to become a true father, has to look continually to the Lord, that he might learn of Him how to relate to his own children
Sunday Adelaja
#43. Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence
Fela Durotoye
#44. All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.
Alice Walker
#45. [Lear] is the universal image of the unwisdom and destructiveness of paternal love at its most ineffectual, implacably persuaded of its own benignity, totally devoid of self-knowledge, and careening onward until it brings down the person it loves best, and its world as well.
Harold Bloom
#46. Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Bill Cosby
#47. Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#48. Forget Batman: when I really thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wanted to be my dad.
Paul Asay
#49. To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad that so few ever stand on the summit.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#50. Too many times I'd left him reaching for me, from a babysitter's arms. "Am I still a mother?" I asked myself ... What parts of the day could I cut out and still give him enough? Paul never asked himself that. He thought he was a great dad.
Mona Simpson
#51. Unsettling emotions are capable of messing up the most beautiful minds in this world.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#52. Never go for someone that represents something that is more of a fantasy than reality in this crazy world of lonely people, unless it is for the shortest time possible, and unless you have clearly figured out an exit strategy.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#54. Fatherhood is everything I wanted it to be and more. It's an unbelievable experience.
Rodger Berman
#56. You can't say you love man as an individual if you have not dealt with the person's complex personality, his or her unfamiliar habits, disturbing impulses and biological makeup.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#57. Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.
Bill Cosby
#58. Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying.
Jim Gaffigan
#59. Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on.
Brad Pitt
#60. All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
Nas
#61. You must sacrifice every thought, very ideology for the good of the nation and for the serenity of our fatherhood.
Francisco Franco
#62. Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.
Mike Myers
#63. When a man does not live with his children and does not get along with the mother of his children, his fatherhood becomes essentially untenable, regardless of how he feels, how hard he tries, or whether he is a good guy. Almost by definition, he has become de-fathered.
David Blankenhorn
#64. It had been my experience that fatherhood was mostly a matter of suffering the insufferable, tolerating the intolerable, and changing diapers.
Jeff Lindsay
#65. Fatherhood, to me, isn't something you do for awards or acclaim. It's a privilege and a huge responsibility
Dwyane Wade
#66. Fatherhood means a great deal to me. I love it. To me, there aint nothing better, because your kids keep it real with you. When you think things are bad, you look at them and they show you how things could be all right, and it's all worth it.
Martin Lawrence
#68. Fatherhood is a man's main goal and appointed purpose in life.
Sunday Adelaja
#69. Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.
Nicolas Cage
#70. As fathers, we should have a desire to be active participants in our children's lives.
Asa Don Brown
#71. The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.
Christopher Meloni
#72. It just isn't possible for you to ask me all the questions, or for me to give you all the answers.
Jose Saramago
#73. 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
#74. The greatest lessons I learned from my father didn't come from lectures or discipline or even time spent together. What has stuck with me is his example. From watching, I chose whether to be or not to be like him.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#75. It was a phone call she didn't want to make. She didn't want to hurt him. Whatever words she gave him, it would take being a daddy away from him.
Crissi Langwell
#76. Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.
William Bennett
#77. 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.
Lyman Abbott
#78. You know, Son, sometimes a fellow has to take a licking for doing the right thing. A licking only lasts a short while, even if it's a hard one, but failing to do the right thing will often make a mark on a man that will last forever.
Ralph Moody
#79. Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
Margaret Mead
#80. However precise the results offered by paternity testers, the truth was recognized by societies that flourished long before they appeared: that fatherhood means more than genes alone.
Steve Jones
#82. I never want her to know that fatherhood was the ambition of my life.
Simon Van Booy
#83. If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will.--Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath
P.A. Speers
#84. Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.
Patti Davis
#85. Of all the titles that I've been privileged to have, the title of 'dad' has always been the best.
Ken Norton
#86. The promises you speak over your children can take on the weight of destiny.
Neil Kennedy
#87. Make me the father, O Lord, who will show my sons enough of a sense of humor, so that they will always be serious, but never take themselves too seriously. Give them humility, so they will always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.
Thom S. Rainer
#88. Very bad joke," Obi-Wan muttered. "D'you know, there are times when you and Bail Organa are uncannily alike."
Anakin kept a straight face, just. "Thank you."
"That wasn't a compliment," growled Obi-Wan,
Karen Miller
#89. Twelve "shame categories" have emerged from my research: Appearance and body image Money and work Motherhood/fatherhood Family Parenting Mental and physical health Addiction Sex Aging Religion Surviving trauma Being stereotyped or labeled
Brene Brown
#90. Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.
Andrea Bocelli
#91. Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the "Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named," from whom every human family comes.
Pope John Paul II
#92. At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.
Rod Stewart
#93. Fatherhood is asking your son to make up a name rather than tell anybody who he is.
Bill Cosby
#94. I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast.
Basil Bunting
#95. Jesus Christ is the way of gaining a father, the path of a pure and righteous life without fornication, lust or adultery
Sunday Adelaja
#96. May my children follow their own intuition to discover true empowerment - in the answers they seek.
Eleesha
#97. Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.
Dwyane Wade
#98. Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
P. J. O'Rourke
#100. It is impossible to overstate the need for prayer in the fabric of family life.
James Dobson
