Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
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.
The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.
..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and man’s only recourse thereafter was to water and tend it; that propagation was a fiction; consequently, society was a fiction too; that fathers and teachers, by virtue of being fathers and teachers, were guilty of a grievous sin.
My daughter," I said blankly. "I see. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought it took a man, as well as a woman, to make a child. Is this infant's father to be a crab, or a seagull maybe? Or were you planning to shipwreck some likely sailor on my doorstep, so I can make convenient use of him?
To have committed every crime but that of being a father.
Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.
My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience.
Fathers have a special excitement about them that babies find intriguing. At this time in his life an infant counts on his motherfor rootedness and anchoring. He can count on his father to be just different enough from a mother. Fathers embody a delicious mixture of familiarity and novelty. They are novel without being strange or frightening.
Being a father can unreason your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. Its sad that childrens open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum.
When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.
My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.
Being a father is just wonderful.
People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.
Over the years, I've had a lot of different jobs - newspaper boy, dish washer, naval flight officer, Amtrak board member, Governor and chairman of the National Governors Association - just to name a few. But my most cherished job - and frankly my most important job for that matter - is being a father.
Being a father is a surprise for me every day.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.
When I was little, I wanted to be a mother, because that's who I saw. I saw my mom caring for me. I didn't play doctor. I didn't play lawyer. I didn't have those visions until I was in college, meeting people who were doing those things. That's why we're trying to encourage moms, teachers, fathers, to be that presence in their children's lives, in their communities, because it really makes a difference.
I love being a father, it's wonderful. It's changed my life. All the clichés are true.
In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you're faced with that situation. I know that my father was, with me. I understand why he had to be distant, because to rip yourself away, time after time, is almost more devastating.
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