Being A Father Quotes - Page 3

• My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience.

  Bruce Willis

  Girl, Jobs, Father

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

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• I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

  Bruce Willis

  Father, Actors, Proud

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• My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Motivational, Fathers Day

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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, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Baby, Father, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everything they do, from smiling to crying, feels like a blessing. Being a father feels amazing. This has been the most spiritual moment in my life.

  Ricky Martin

  Spiritual, Father, Blessing

  "First Photo of Ricky Martin's Twins!". Interview with Ulrica Wihlborg, people.com. December 10, 2008.

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• Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children, Dad, Father

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.128, Penguin

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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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• 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 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

  Confucius

  Fathers Day, Dad, Children

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• Being a father is the hardest job on the planet, because we don't have parental instincts like women have. You have to learn how to be a father before you even become a father, from a very young age. It's necessary to override what we're told in society a father should be, like if your son falls and scrapes his knee, you got to be tough. Baseball and all that are cool, but it's the tenderness and interactions that are really important. Boys are different; we have to impart that sensibility and that tenderness to them.

  Malik Yusef

  Baseball, Jobs, Father

  Source: www.motherjones.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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• To her, the name of father was another name for love.

  Fanny Fern

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

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