Fatherhood Quotes - Page 7

• There's nothing more life-changing than fatherhood.

  Brad Pitt

  Family, Life Changing

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• We do not diminish the value of what women or men achieve in any worthy endeavor or career -- we all benefit from their achievements -- but still recognize that there is not a higher good than motherhood and fatherhood in marriage. There is no superior career, and no amount of money, authority or public acclaim can exceed the ultimate rewards of family.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Motherhood, Men, Careers

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• To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Daughter, Running, Atheist

  "Hitch-22: A Memoir". Book by Christopher Hitchens, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Failure, Son, Ideas

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• All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

  Samuel Richardson

  Views, Years, Childhood

  Samuel Richardson (2014). “Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete”, p.960, Simon and Schuster

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• When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant, and you sort of get a list from her every day, and you do, you know, you run down the list, and it feels very much like a chore. And a lot of fathers live in kind of an avoidance. They sit on the toilet for several hours a day... Oh, honey, it took me 40 minutes to go to the post office... But once you become a dad without the mom there, you have to take it all on, and you sort of activate male skills that you didn't know you could apply to fatherhood.

  Louis C. K.

  Mother, Running, Dad

  "Comedian Louis C.K.: Finding Laughs Post-Divorce". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 7, 2010.

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• I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

  Sidney Poitier

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

  Nas

  Daughter, Mother, Son

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

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• Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

  Max Muller

  Childhood, Secret, Mystery

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

  Maya Lin

  Artist, Childhood, Realizing

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 16, 2000.

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• I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way.

  Elton John

  Dad, Kids, Night

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• I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.

  Miguel Indurain

  Dad, Father, Work

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

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• I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.

  Bobby Flay

  Memories, Childhood, Hamburgers

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• But for fatherhood advice, try to look your child in the eye.... Get to know their name; that becomes important when you want something. And remember to feed them. That's about all you need.

  Will Ferrell

  Children, Dad, Eye

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• Being a father is the most important role I will ever play and if I don't do this well, no other thing I do really matters.

  Michael Josephson

  Dad, Father, Play

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• It's a great joy but no test of love or commitment to take your son to a ball game. You really prove your credentials as a good dad when you are willing to take your daughter shopping - more than once.

  Michael Josephson

  Daughter, Dad, Father

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• That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile and a tear and a wave. Everyone has learned, found love, seen the error of their ways, discovered the joys of monogamy, or fatherhood, or filial duty, or life itself. In my day, people got shot at the end of films, after learning only that life is hollow, dismal, brutish, and short.

  Nick Hornby

  Errors, People, Joy

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, June 7, 2005.

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• Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Family, Father

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.233, Penguin

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• Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the created world, placing in doubt the truth about God who is Love and leaving man with only a sense of the master-slave relationship.

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Leaving, Doubt

  Pope John Paul II (2013). “Crossing the Threshold of Hope”, p.32, Knopf

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• At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

  Rod Stewart

  Birthday, Age, Aging

  "Rod Stewart: I burst into tears when Penny said she was pregnant". www.mirror.co.uk. November 1, 2010.

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• Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.

  Guy Lombardo

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Strong

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• Fatherhood isn't always a planned thing, but when it happens you just do it. It's very natural and in that sense it's not really difficult.

  Kelly Slater

  Natural, Difficult, Happens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

  Wally Schirra

  Fathers Day, Dad, Hero

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• Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

  George Will

  Business, Childhood, Solemn

  George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone

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• I thought I would be more inspired to have all these new feelings to talk about, but I really just want to hang out with my daughter.

  Jay-Z

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Feelings

  "Jay-Z to headline and curate his own Made in America festival" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

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