Fatherhood Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both.

  Michael Josephson

  Children, Dad, Father

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Children, Men, Childhood

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• Fatherhood is telling your daughter that Michael Jackson loves all his fans, but has special feelings for the ones who eat broccoli.

  Bill Cosby

  Daughter, Vegetables, Feelings

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• This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Father, Important, Roles

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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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• That really is the best part of being a dad. You remember what's important in life.

  Russell Simmons

  Dad, Important, Remember

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• I watch my daughter wanting to be like other kids and getting upset that she's not. But I always try and instill in her the idea that she's perfect as she is.

  Idris Elba

  Daughter, Kids, Ideas

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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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• 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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• 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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• Fatherhood didnt change me in the beginning very much.

  Tom Sizemore

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• [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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• 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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