Quotes on Fatherhood

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

And above all, children need our unconditional love - whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]

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.

My dad has always taught me these words: care and share.

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

Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the "Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named," from whom every human family comes.

In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees".

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

I just loved him and he loved me... He was a most humble man, the most decent man I've ever met in my life and he always looked for the best in people to find positives and he said something to me that always remained with me. He said if you believe in the fatherhood of God you must necessarily believe in the brotherhood of man, it follows necessarily and even though I left the church and was not religious, that truth remained with me.

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.

I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.