Born Quote by Audre Lorde

“You will have to man up,” we tell our sons. “Anyone can make a baby, but it takes a man to be a father.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.

— Dwyane Wade

What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them

— Andrew Combe

“Our daughters grow up with the same possibilities as our sons”

— Betty Fiedan

We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

— John Lancaster Spalding

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

— Sholom Aleichem

“Mothers should be very careful what type of boys and men they create, or allow to be created.”

— Bryant McGill

“Every one of our sons leaves home at some point. They become men who can return to help us mothers in ways that no…

— Meg Meeker Md

The child shall become father to the man.

— William Wordsworth

“Any man can become a father, but it takes a devoted man to become a daddy.”

— Wilfred Bostwick

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

— Gloria Steinem

“We are, in large part, a culture that expects its boys to initiate themselves into manhood. But holistic or even minimal initiation into manhood…

— Michael Gurian