Fatherhood Quotes - Page 11

• I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.

  Norman Wisdom

  Childhood, Consistency, Want

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

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• Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood

  Chris Hadfield

  Dad, Tasks, Elation

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• Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, And Love

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• Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Equality, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

  Calvin Coolidge (1929). “Mr. Coolidge's Address on Secondary Education”

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• 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]

  C. S. Lewis

  Father, Almost Perfect, Roots

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• A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

  Pindar

  Childhood, Age, Aging

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• The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in upholding these principles and our enemies are attacking them.

  William Howard Taft

  War, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

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• I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Thinking, Dancer, Childhood

  "Ballerina of the Century". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!

  Rich Sommer

  Practice, Acting

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• Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

  Ned Rorem

  Growing Up, Artist, Childhood

  Ned Rorem (2000). “Lies: A Diary, 1986-1999”, Counterpoint Press

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• I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast.

  Basil Bunting

  Father, Hate, Spring

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• The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Mirrors, Illusion, Visible

  'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis, Tertius' (1941) in 'Obras Completas' (1974) p. 431

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• Develop the feeling of brotherhood of man and fatherhood of God.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Feelings

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• I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

  Charley Pride

  Dream, People, Childhood

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Years, Childhood, Events

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• If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Failure, Math

  Quoted in J. W. N. Sullivan, Contemporary Mind (1934)

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• The brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God; and to deny the one is no less infidel than to deny the other.

  Lyman Abbott

  Brother, Men, Christianity

  Lyman Abbott (1896*). “Christianity and social problems”

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• We are born to soar. We are children of God. ... The Fatherhood of God offers a deep spiritual cure for the inferiority complex and lays the firm foundation for a solid spiritual self-esteem.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Spiritual, Children, Self Esteem

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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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• I've been a dad since I was nineteen, so I think a lot about fatherhood and the power of that sacrifice in your life.

  Jess Walter

  Dad, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One may not be able to fulfill a fatherly role with one's own child, but on the other hand, and this goes for me as well, one might still be a "father of choice" to someone else out there in the world. Fatherhood is something that can be shared worldwide. Meaning that in terms of the substance of a father's role, perhaps we are all pseudo-fathers.

  Mamoru Hosoda

  Children, Father, Hands

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• No better blessing than the responsibility of fatherhood.

  Stephen Curry

  Responsibility, Blessing

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I am very much enjoying the fatherhood phase of my life.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Phases, Enjoy

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Fatherhood is asking your son to make up a name rather than tell anybody who he is.

  Bill Cosby

  Son, Names, Asking

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