Quotes About Fathering

#1. The guys who fear becoming
fathers don't understand that fathering
is not something perfect men do, but something
that perfects the man. The end product of child
raising is not the child, but the parent.

Frank Pittman

#2. Could it be that the great Bonaparte is incapable of fathering a child? that it is not I who am at fault but you?

Carolly Erickson

#3. Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do

Frank Pittman

#4. Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.

Francis Of Assisi

#5. Experience of the phenomenal capacity of our birthing body can give us an enduring sense of our own power as women. Birth is the beginning of life; the beginning of mothering, and of fathering. We all deserve a good beginning.

Sarah J. Buckley

#6. Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

David Gottesman

#7. Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.

Frank Pittman

#8. But the problem with crests is that they lead downhill. From the crest I can see all the rest of my years stretched out before me. And the view doesn't please me. I see only aging, diminishment, fathering, grandfathering." "But,

Irvin D. Yalom

#9. If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just needs to be there.

Frank Pittman

#10. This fathering is a man's second chance at living.

Angelo Patri

#11. Whatever their age, most men have never received true fathering.

John Eldredge

#12. If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

Bill Cosby

#13. Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.

Michael Chabon

#14. Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.

Steven Spielberg

#15. A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.

Clyde Edgerton

#16. There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

Gertrude Stein

#17. Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

Frank Pittman

#18. Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence

Wm. Paul Young

#19. When these parenting years have passed, something precious will have flickered and gone out of my life. Thus, I am resolved to enjoy every day that remains in this fathering era.

James Dobson

#20. During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

Florence King

#21. When people say "to father," they generally mean that one biological act - the act of begetting a child. It is different with the verb "to mother." "To mother" implies care. A man's act of fathering can easily be that one seed sown; a woman's act of mothering can take up all the rest of her life. I

Deborah Meyler

#22. There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.

Bill Cosby

#23. I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

David Selby

#24. So inveterate is their appetite for Heaven that our best method, at this stage, of attaching them to earth is to make them believe that earth can be turned into Heaven at some future date by politics or eugenics or 'science' or psychology, or what not. Real

C.S. Lewis

#25. Days ago, when she faced Khione on the Argo II, Piper had started talking without thinking, following her heart no matter what her brain said. Now she did the same thing. She moved in front of the statue and faced the giant, though the rational part of her screamed: RUN, YOU IDIOT!

Rick Riordan

#26. I want you to love me very hard. Because I'm pretty sure I've never loved someone as hard as I love you, Maverick.

Katy Evans

#27. Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting.

Matthew Weiner

#28. I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics

Common

#29. Don't let truth and grace forsake one another. If you raise your child with only truth (or your laws), they will never live up to your rules or expectations. No one can fulfill all of the law. On the other hand , if you only give grace to your children, they will run wild without restraint.

Neil Kennedy

#30. The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

Dennis Potter