Fatherhood Quotes

“Sooner or later, you will discover which kind of father you are, and at that moment you will, with perfect horror, recognize the type. You are the kind of father who fakes it, who yells, who measures his children with greatest accuracy only against one another, who evades the uncomfortable and glosses over the painful and pads the historic records of his sorrows and accomplishments alike. You are the kind who teases and deceives and toys with his children and subjects them to displays of rich and manifold sarcasm when--as is always the case--sarcasm is the last thing they need. You are the kind of father who pretends knowledge he doesn't possess, and imposes information with implacable gratuitousness, and teaches lessons at the moment when none can be absorbed, and is right, and has always been right, and always will be right until the end of time, and never more than immediately after he has been wrong. And when your daughter's body begins to betray her, and her sky flickers in the distance with the heat lightning of sex, you clear your throat and stroke your chin whiskers and tell her to go ask her mother. You can't help it--you're a walking cliché.”
― Michael Chabon, Manhood for Amateurs

“Finally coming to terms with Fathers Day. I blow as a Dad. I get it. No, I'm not an evil, abusive Father, it's just that while all my intentions and thoughts have been out of love for my kids, my actions and behaviour never measured up.”
― Geoffrey Hill

“Do you suppose, gentlemen, that our children as they grow up and begin to reason can avoid such questions? No, they cannot, and we will not impose on them an impossible restriction. The sight of an unworthy father involuntarily suggests tormenting questions to a young creature, especially when he compares him with the excellent fathers of his companions. The conventional answer to this question is: 'He begot you, and you are his flesh and blood, and therefore you are bound to love him.' The youth involuntarily reflects: 'But did he love me when he begot me?' he asks, wondering more and more. 'Was it for my sake he begot me? He did not know me, not even my sex, at that moment, at the moment of passion, perhaps, inflamed by wine, and he has only transmitted to me a propensity to drunkenness- that's all he's done for me.... Why am I bound to love him simply for begetting me when he has cared nothing for me all my life after?
Oh, perhaps those questions strike you as coarse and cruel, but do not expect an impossible restraint from a young mind. 'Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window'.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“أحيانًا يخيفني، ويرعبني، ويذكرني بطفولتي، إنني أشتاق لأن أكون أكثرا شبهًا به. إن كل رجل يبدأ موته بموت أبيه.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Other Colors: Essays and A Story

“What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give their children — concrete, imaginative, teaching general principles from particular instances, and seeking all the time to bring the children to appreciate and share the parent's own attitudes and view of life… The all-embracing principles of conduct”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

“When kids made a decision for themselves they have a vested interest in showing they were right. Lee wanted to prove to me that he had made the right choice so he worked hard and did well. If we'd forced him to go to college somewhere else all the incentives would've been different. Then he would have had a motive to prove that we were wrong.”
― Cokie Roberts Steve Roberts, From This Day Forward

“Teaching a boy to be a man is the primary job of a father.”
― Clayton Lessor MA, LPC

“Incidentally, I have also learned a bit about the importance of avoiding feminine embarrassment ('Daddy,' wrote Sophia when she enrolled at the New School where I teach, 'people will ask" why is old Christopher Hitchens kissing that girl? "') and shall now cease and desist.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call of my first big story with a yellow border around it was more powerful than the call of fatherhood.”
― Joe McNally, The Moment It Clicks: Photography Secrets from One of the World's Top Shooters

“Assuming mother's absence is only for a short time, don't be too concerned if you find yourself being more relaxed than she is over what the children eat. It is far better to maintain harmony and let mother cope with the problem later. You can use the excuse" You are only having this because Mummy's in hospital! ".”
― Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia, NMAA Cooks

“Trước kia, khi biết anh và Fumiya không chung dòng máu, anh chỉ nghĩ xem mình có thể làm Bố được không. Anh không hề nghĩ đến việc phải chọn cho người mình yêu con đường hạnh phúc. Anh yêu thằng bé thế cơ mà. Anh thật là ngốc. Anh ấy đã nói như thế và khóc trên điện thoại”
― Keigo Higashino, Naoko

“Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himself and saved it for this time. At any time in the Palace he might run by, Youth on this shoulders or, as time went by, toddling along behind.”
― Orson Scott Card, Hart's Hope

“If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“My one-year-old walks up to me with arms outstretched. I can see it in his eyes. He is searching for something: approval, affirmation, acceptance. The kind that only a father can give. He is hungry for a father's love, for the Father's love.
Either the laughter in my eyes, the smile on my face, and the strength and tenderness of my arms will tell the truth about God, or their absence will blaspheme the Father of lights.
My son is reaching for me, and looking for God.
My son, the theologian.”
― Joe Rigney, The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts

“Reconsider the capacity of our fathers’ hearts. Many of them were handed so little, yet we expected so much. They gave more than they had, but less than what we needed.”
― Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

“In order for a boy to have become a good man, that boy would have had to have held the hand of a good man.”
― Mekael Shane

“Parenthood is a lesson on its own. But the best, lessons in parenthood are from our children. Let's cherish them, appreciate them, and recognise their special roles in our lives.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“AstroMama is a motherhood brand that was formed on the ideologies of astrology. It's a lifestyle movement that accompanies parents, particularly mothers, in their parenting journey. AstroMama shares tips on how to nurture and water the offspring based on what the Planets originally intended.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“AstroMama is a motherhood brand that has been formed on the ideologies of astrology. It's a lifestyle movement that accompanies parents, particularly mothers, in their parenting journey. AstroMama shares tips on how to nurture and water the offspring based on what the Planets originally intended.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“ZodiacMama is a motherhood brand that has been formed on the ideologies of astrology. It's a lifestyle movement that accompanies parents, particularly mothers, in their parenting journey. AstroMama shares tips on how to nurture and water the offspring based on what the Planets originally intended.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“ZodiacMama is a parenthood brand that has been formed on the ideologies of astrology. It's a lifestyle movement that accompanies parents, particularly mothers, in their parenting journey. ZodiacMama shares tips on how to nurture and water the offspring based on what the Planets originally intended.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“In the woods near the château, it wasn’t unusual to see hedgehogs, especially early in the morning. They would curl up in a ball when I got too close. This reminded me of my father. He could get violently angry, sometimes even in public, but I could feel him curling up, out of fear.”
― Sima Samar, Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan

“In the woods near the château, it wasn’t unusual to see hedgehogs, especially early in the morning. They would curl up in a ball when I got too close. This reminded me of my father. He could get violently angry, sometimes even in public, but I could feel him curling up, out of fear.”
― Xavier Le Clerc

“I observed my father’s face out of the corner of my eye. I wanted to squash the adoption rumour, find some irrefutable proof in our resemblance, some connections laid down by nature. When I got tired of excavating the mine of his face, I imagined other fathers for myself. After all, if a father could adopt a son, couldn’t a son also adopt a father?”
― Xavier Le Clerc

“After all, family dynamics aren’t independent clusters of choice and consequence, but rather a tapestry of intricately woven threads of action and reaction, passing over and under each other, knotting together time, emotion, and experience as one.”
― Cory Richards, The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within

“If everything is the same thing, then does anything matter?” I insist. He caps his pen, pauses, and finally says, “Well, I suppose it’s the way it’s all arranged that gives it meaning... it’s how it’s put together. But then again, in the grand scheme of things... no, it probably doesn’t matter in the way we think it does.”
― Cory Richards, The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within

“A good father will allow a child to know their limitations.”
― Sharky Rich

“I am not to blame, you know,
whether the child is male or female.
God who created and who watches over mankind
has decreed that the mother should be happy
and the father pleased with any child.”
― Heldris de Cornualles de Cornualles

“I am not to blame, you know,
whether the child is male or female.
God who created and who watches over mankind
has decreed that the mother should be happy
and the father pleased with any child.”
― Heldris de Cornualles, Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance

“Being a father could be by chance but being a “DAD” is a choice a man with exceptional character makes.”
― Mystqx Skye