Fatherhood Quotes - Page 3

• Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

  Thomas Szasz

  Childhood, Age, Shrinking

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• I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

  Tina Yothers

  Childhood, Acting, Complaints

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• I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

  Kurt Cobain

  Divorce, Childhood, Nine

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• I just wish I could understand my father.

  Michael Jackson

  Dad, Father, Wish

  "The Michael Jackson Interview: Oprah Reflects". Interview with Oprah, www.oprah.com. February 10, 1993.

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• I've never outgrown my childhood.

  David McCallum

  Childhood

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• The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

  John Green

  Fathers Day, Dad, Unqualified

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• I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

  Uma Thurman

  Growing Up, Childhood, Grows

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• You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

  Ron Perlman

  Childhood, Actors, Tees

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• Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

  Dennis Potter

  Personality, Childhood, Symbols

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• Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so.

  Pam Brown

  Fathers Day, Clever, Dad

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• The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

  Jean Paul

  Family, Dad, Children

  Jean Paul (1866). “Levana: or, The doctrine of education”, p.17

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• The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

  Mencius

  Positive, Christmas, Wisdom

  Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The works of mencius”, p.198

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• His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father.

  Will Rogers, Jr.

  Children, Father, Men

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• It's hard having kids because it's boring... It's just being with them on the floor while they be children. They read Clifford the Big Red Dog to you at a rate of 50 minutes a page, and you have to sit there and be horribly proud and bored at the same time.

  Louis C. K.

  Dog, Children, Kids

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• Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe

  Tom Wolfe

  Dad, Children, Father

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• A father is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with snapshots of his kids.

  Michael Forest

  Father, Kids, Snapshots

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• One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

  George Herbert

  Relationship, Daughter, Fathers Day

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.168

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• Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

  Michael Foot

  Fathers Day, Taught, Influence

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• When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

  William Shakespeare

  Fathers Day, Dad, Son

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• To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

  Anne Geddes

  Relationship, Dad, Father

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• The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

  Garrison Keillor

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Running

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• It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Family, Thank You, Fathers Day

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• There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Fathers Day, Song, Children

  FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from May 09, 2012

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

  Lydia M. Child

  Family, Fathers Day, Children

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