Fatherhood Quotes - Page 6

• If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

  Thomas Fuller

  Daughter, Honesty, Father

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• Not all Masons are obligated on the Christian Bible. Masonry is universal and men of every creed are eligible for membership so long as they accept the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. Therefore, the candidate should be obligated on the Book of the Sacred Law which he accepts as such since his obligation is a solemn and binding one.

  George Washington

  Christian, Book, Men

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• What I love most about fatherhood is the opportunity to be a part of the development process of a new life.

  Seal

  Opportunity, New Life, Development

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• My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Home, Wheat Fields, Childhood

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• Motherhood goes back in history to a time when a father had no way of knowing his children. Fatherhood only became known when class patriarchal society had established itself and imposed monogamous marriage on women. Motherhood is like sun and rain and plants, a quality and product of nature which does not require laws or systems in order to exist.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Children, Father, Rain

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• Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thinking, Guy, Knows

  "Jim Gaffigan On Parenting". Interview with Chris Wright, www.esquire.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close and nurturing, not distant and authoritarian. Fatherhood as more than bread winning. Fatherhood as new-and-improved masculinity. Fathers unafraid of feelings. Fathers without sexism. Fatherhood as fifty-fifty parenthood, undistorted by arbitrary gender divisions or stifling social roles.

  David Blankenhorn

  Father, Winning, Ideas

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• I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks

  Patty Duke

  House, Childhood, Towns

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• Fatherhood didnt change me in the beginning very much.

  Tom Sizemore

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• Fatherhood is a joy. I feel very lucky to have a family. It gives you a perspective on things.

  David Harewood

  Giving, Perspective, Joy

  "David Harewood: My family values". Interview with Busola Evans, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2013.

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• I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

  Edna O'Brien

  Childhood, Trying, Alive

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• 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.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Father, Inspiration

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• A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.

  Unknown

  Fathers Day, Father Son, Volunteerism

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• 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".

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Husband, Inspiration

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• You can't plan the kind of deep love that results in children. Fatherhood was not a conscious decision. It was part of the wonderful ride I was on. All the math finally worked.

  Johnny Depp

  Children, Math, Destiny

  "Depp's Vigil For Sick Daughter" by Stephen Moyes, www.mirror.co.uk. March 8, 2007.

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• The U.S. is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his or her father. Today an American child can reasonably expect not to. Fatherlessness is now approaching a rough parity with fatherhood as a defining feature of American childhood.

  David Blankenhorn

  Children, Growing Up, Father

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• The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything.

  Mona Simpson

  Men, Generations, Complicated

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• [Fatherhood] is everything.... The hardest job in the world, the most rewarding job in the world.... We put in long days. And to go home and have dinner with your kids, and have to discipline one of them who's out of line, and still have the energy for that is.... I can't explain the fulfillment of that, but it is everything.

  Brad Pitt

  Jobs, Dad, Kids

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• Life doesn't come with an instruction book; that's why we have fathers.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Fathers Day, Book, Instruction

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• Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.

  Patti Davis

  Motherhood, Thinking, People

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• Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe.

  Lucy Corin

  Book, Parent, Alphabet

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• My fatherhood made me understand my parents and to honor them more for the love they gave. My sonhood was revealed to me in its own perfection and I understood the reason the Chinese so value filiality, the responsibility of the son to honor the parents.

  Kent Nerburn

  Responsibility, Son, Perfection

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• Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently its the most difficult thing in the world.

  Kelly Slater

  World, Maintaining, Difficult

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• The power of this experience [fatherhood] can never be explained. It is one of those joyful codings that rumbles in the species far below understanding. When it is experienced it makes you one with all men in a way that fills you with warmth and harmony.

  Kent Nerburn

  Men, Understanding, Way

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• Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

  Rob Reiner

  Jail, Childhood, Nightmare

  "Star Power Fuels Push For Prop. 10 / `Rob Reiner Initiative' has steep cigarette tax" by Sabin Russell, www.sfgate.com. October 22, 1998.

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