Quotes About Great Fatherhood

#1. Behind every great man is a man greater, his father.

Habeeb Akande

#2. Saturday mornings, I've learned, are a great opportunity for kids to sneak into your bed, fall back asleep, and kick you in the face.

Dan Pearce

#3. Clearly, sharing something could take you a long way, or at least to a different place than you'd planned. Like a friendship or a family, or even jsut alone on a curb on a Saturday, trying to get your bearings as best you can.

Sarah Dessen

#4. As soon as I know it's about technological things or spies, I lose interest. I want to know what goes on in people's minds.

Ruth Rendell

#5. The main factor for Craig was that he was being asked to move to a new position in the last year of his contract. We had empathy for that and we wanted to show what he has meant to the Astros over the years.

Gerry Hunsicker

#6. It is not well for a man to know more than is necessary for his daily living.

Pearl S. Buck

#7. It is indeed great news that, despite the challenges, in some ways it is more
possible than ever before to have a great career and be a great dad.

Scott Behson

#8. Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

Jon Stewart

#9. Every group needs a comedian. A comic who is politically incorrect at the Berkeley campus might slay them at a Klan rally.

Lenny Bruce

#10. 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

#11. I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

Lord Byron

#12. As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.

Douglas William Jerrold

#13. My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.

Patricia MacLachlan

#14. The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

Carl Sagan

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?

Jon Meacham

#18. 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

#19. Remember me with joy, for this is how I always thought of you. That is what I want, more than anything. I want you to smile when you think of me. And in your smile, I will live forever

Nicholas Sparks

#20. 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