Being A Father Quotes - Page 3

• Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

  Lydia M. Child

  Family, Fathers Day, Children

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• You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Family, God

  Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, September 7, 1986.

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• I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.

  Steven Tyler

  Mother, Children, Father

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• My favorite thing about being a father is just seeing my kids grow and do some of the same things that I did when I was a kid, man.

  LeBron James

  Father, Kids, Men

  "NBA Finalists Stephen Curry and LeBron James Share What They've Learned About Fatherhood" by Joi-Marie Mckenzie, abcnews.go.com. June 19, 2016.

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• I am already experiencing something better than being a pop star and that's being a father. It's the best job in the world. A lot of work, but a lot of fun.

  A. J. McLean

  Jobs, Stars, Fun

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• Being a father and trying to love my daughters with unconditional love - those were all good decisions.

  George W. Bush

  Daughter, Father, Unconditional Love

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• The thing that drives me more than anything else is being a father.

  Dean Cain

  Father

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [Ralph Angel] was really about figuring out the humanity aspect of the character and not really paying attention to certain things like him being incarcerated or him being a father and showing that type of love and putting something before you, despite me not having kids in real life. He's vulnerable, ambitious and alive.

  Kofi Siriboe

  Father, Real, Character

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I'm still divided in my principles and what I think is right and what I'm actually able to do, whether talking about writing or being a citizen or being a husband or being a father. And I'm trying to get better.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Husband, Father, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I love to have fun. I do my own shopping. I do my own yardwork. I like to garden. I like to fish. I like to golf. I'm an outdoorsman. I like to cook. But when I hit the football stadium, I click the switch, because I know I'm there for a job. I get in a whole different mindset when I enter the stadium. But once I leave I'm back to being a father, husband, a friend.

  Vince Wilfork

  Football, Fun, Husband

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.

  Michael Zaslow

  Father, Selfishness, Able

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• Being a father kind of gives you something more to play for.

  Stephen Curry

  Father, Play, Giving

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It's an awesome feeling being a father, because you never think you can fall in love with something so quickly. It was almost immediate.

  Richard Sherman

  Falling In Love, Father, Thinking

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I think we think that parenthood is confined to the country of mothers, but I think a lot of the men I've spoken to and the men who have read my books - I've been surprised by this actually - have a fierce attachment to being parents and to being fathers. And just as we, a lot of women I know, want this, men too want to pass down what they have to pass down.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Country, Mother, Father

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Being a father is like directing Alien or Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It's much more difficult than directing an episode of TV. Also, directing a show or movie lasts a few months at most, parenting lasts for decades.

  Misha Collins

  Father, Body, Invasion

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com.

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• I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.

  Andrew Solomon

  Father, People, Parent

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• People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that. I had an argument with my mom about Father's Day and why it's not celebrated like Mother's Day.

  Dwight Howard

  Mom, Mother, Father

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

  Tom Wolfe

  Inspirational, Fathers Day, Dad

  Tom Wolfe (2002). “The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel”, p.446, Macmillan

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• I feel most assuredly that our Father in heaven is far more interested in a soul-one of his children-than it is possible for an earthly father to be in one of his children. His love for us is greater than can be the love of an earthly parent for his offspring.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Children, Father, Parent

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• When I was younger, I jumped out of a moving car. I would do anything. Now, being a father and knowing the political state of the world, there are certain things which potentially could be religiously volatile that I would probably avoid, but not much.

  Nick Frost

  Father, Moving, Knowing

  "Nick Frost Talks UNFINISHED BUSINESS, TINTIN 2, THE HUNTSMAN, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 11, 2015.

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• I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

  Philip Schultz

  Revenge, Father, May

  Source: poems.com

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• Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, 'Now I'm going to read my paper' than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.

  Benjamin Spock

  Girl, Zoos, Father

  Benjamin Spock (1956). “The Pocket Book of Baby and Child Care”

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• I love it. I hate that word (fatherhood), but I love being a father; it's changed everything in so many ways.

  Orlando Bloom

  Father, Hate, Love Is

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• Water has always been a large part of my life, so for me now, being a father with another child on the way, I'm just teaching some of the small things I've been able to learn - and passing that onto the younger generation. Small things like turning your faucet off when you brush your teeth, not taking a 30-minute shower when you really don't need to. So I want to teach the younger generation to spread the message and make a difference. I'm almost more excited to do this than I was to swim.

  Michael Phelps

  Children, Father, Teaching

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• The Lord has directed, Bring up your children in light and truth. To me, there is no more important human effort. Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge; it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration. President David O. McKay (1873-1970) stated that being parents is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

  James E. Faust

  Mother, Children, Father

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