fatherhood quotes

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

It’s true; once you are a father, there’s no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

I was baptized by my father when I was 4 years old.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I’ve been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you’re always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.

I’m dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God’s sake, not a television personality.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

I never had a speech from my father ‚this is what you must do or shouldn’t do‘ but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn’t perfect.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

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

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.