Quotes on Fathering

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

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.

Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.