Fatherhood Quotes · Page 7

Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's…

— Robert Downey, Jr

Being a father is the most important role I will ever play and if I don't do this well, no other thing…

— Michael Josephson

Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.

— Bill Cosby

Fatherhood: How God blesses you out of your selfishness and floods your soul with love, all while reminding you how little you…

— Mark Hart

Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.

— A. Theodore Tuttle

“Prospero the Enchanter's immediate reaction upon meeting his daughter is a simple declaration of: "Well, fuck.”

— Erin Morgenstern

Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

“From what I have seen of the world, Reverend, motherhood is a certainty, but fatherhood is a subject of debate.”

— Michael Crummey

I wish I knew myself, when I was playing, with the insight I gained once I found peace and distance from cricket,…

— Michael Clarke

You don't have to be Wilt Chamberlain to get into the Basketball Hall of Fame. If you don't have a sweet turnaround…

— Brendan I. Koerner

“Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind a woman with no child could only be explained by vast untrammeled…

— Junot Díaz

“I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call…

— Joe McNally

You know when you see a mother someplace just melting down on her kid? She's like, 'Shut up, I hate you, you're…

— Louis C. K

Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in…

— Martin Amis

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…

— Pete Wentz

I am very strongly paternal. My paternal instincts need to be acted upon. My love needs a release. I love everyone. I…

— Karan Johar

“What makes a good father? A good father sets an example that his children want to follow. A good father provides for…

— Rob Kozak

Some guys didn't have fathers. Some guys grew up with great dads but the weight of fatherhood shifts onto their shoulders because…

— Matt Barnes

A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Do you suppose, gentlemen, that our children as they grow up and begin to reason can avoid such questions? No, they cannot,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Sooner or later, you will discover which kind of father you are, and at that moment you will, with perfect horror, recognize…

— Michael Chabon

“Any man has the capability of making a baby, but the responsibility of fatherhood is a gift bestowed upon those wise enough…

— Chad Judice

“When kids made a decision for themselves they have a vested interest in showing they were right. Lee wanted to prove to…

— Cokie Roberts Steve Roberts

“Parenting has nothing to do with perfection. Perfection isn’t even the goal, not for us, not for our children. Learning together to…

— L.R. Knost

“My fatherhood style, my management style. I was forever questioning, Is it good—or merely good enough?”

— Phil Knight

My paternal grandmother, Isabel, was a health nurse and a mother of four, and a grandmother of eight.

— Noah Reid

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

— Anonymous

Fatherhood is everything I wanted it to be and more. It's an unbelievable experience.

— Rodger Berman

That's a win for me, for people to be able to say, 'Faith, fatherhood, monogamy exists in hip-hop.'

— Lecrae

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

— Robert Creeley

I think fatherhood would change anybody when you have your first son. It's been amazing.

— Russell Westbrook

“Raising The Kids …Running the Family Is A Combined Effort of Both Dad & Mom!”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

My paternal poppa, Alec, was a taxi driver and swimming coach. He taught all his grandchildren how to swim and loved all…

— Ellyse Perry

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

— Frank A. Clark

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

— Dennis Potter

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

— Jane Jacobs

“A child playing with its father screams louder, laughs harder, jumps more eagerly, puts more faith in everything.”

— Lydia Netzer

All is pattern, all life, but we can't always see the pattern when we're part of it.

— Belva Plain

So my reaction to hearing this corny-ass, horrible song ["With Arms Wide Open" by Creed] is violent, uncontrollable, sustained weeping.

— Michael Ian Black

They legislate fatherhood in Norway. It's not an option. That's a shocking thing to us in America.

— Steven Van Zandt