Fatherhood Quotes

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  • It has been left to the last Christians, or rather to the first Christians fully committed to blaspheming and denying Christianity, to invent a new kind of worship of Sex, which is not even a worship of Life. It has been left to the very latest Modernists to proclaim an erotic religion which at once exalts lust and forbids fertility . . . The new priests abolish the fatherhood and keep the feast - to themselves.

    Christian   Sex   Erotic  
  • My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

    Harry S. Truman (1966). “Good old Harry: the wit and wisdom of Harry S. Truman”
  • No word makes me happier than the word "daddy" when it's directed to me.

    Dad   Father   Daddy  
  • It is impossible to overstate the need for prayer in the fabric of family life.

    Dr. James Dobson (2012). “Love for a Lifetime: Building a Marriage That Will Go the Distance”, p.53, Multnomah
  • Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

    Father   Men   Careers  
  • Motherhood goes back in history to a time when a father had no way of knowing his children. Fatherhood only became known when class patriarchal society had established itself and imposed monogamous marriage on women. Motherhood is like sun and rain and plants, a quality and product of nature which does not require laws or systems in order to exist.

    Children   Father   Rain  
  • That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

  • Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.

    Interview with Jared Zwerling, www.espn.com. September 29, 2011.
  • There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

  • When rappers call each other son it leads me to believe they don't take fatherhood very seriously.

    Believe   Son   Rapper  
  • My dad came over to the house... went into his pocket and pulled out a handful of money, and began to pass it out to the children... This was the same man who, when I was his child, I would ask him for 50 cents, this man would tell me his life's story.

    Children   Dad   Men  
  • My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.

  • Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe.

  • Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

    Book   Years   Giving  
  • Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

    Father   Years   Changed  
  • Just as a father feels it is all ending and his children are off to start their own families, a new role begins. In midlife, Dad may experience his second "fatherhood" as a grandparent.

    Dad   Children   Father  
  • When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant, and you sort of get a list from her every day, and you do, you know, you run down the list, and it feels very much like a chore. And a lot of fathers live in kind of an avoidance. They sit on the toilet for several hours a day... Oh, honey, it took me 40 minutes to go to the post office... But once you become a dad without the mom there, you have to take it all on, and you sort of activate male skills that you didn't know you could apply to fatherhood.

    Mother   Running   Dad  
    "Comedian Louis C.K.: Finding Laughs Post-Divorce". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 7, 2010.
  • On a deeper level, if our sons are learning they are obscene, disgusting, and untrustworthy, is this the best preparation for fatherhood? And is it the best preparation for becoming a mother - to feel this way about her son?

    "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.
  • I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

    Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

    Funny   Family   Father  
    Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.233, Penguin
  • 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.

    Dad   Book   Taken  
  • 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.

  • It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

  • Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

    Ned Rorem (2000). “Lies: A Diary, 1986-1999”, Counterpoint Press
  • I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!

  • Fatherhood is asking your son to make up a name rather than tell anybody who he is.

    Son   Names   Fatherhood  
  • The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

    Robert Frost, Elaine Barry (1973). “Robert Frost on writing”, Rutgers Univ Pr
  • What do I owe my father? Everything!

  • Oh, fatherhood has a very humanising effect on a bloke like me in the military. As a dad, you become absolutely aware of your own human frailty and a need to be nurturing and compassionate and fatherly

    Dad   Military   Men  
  • My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

    Sports   Dad   Father  
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