Fatherhood Quotes
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Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.
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Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.
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I'm about to turn 48, and I think that the closer I get to 50, the more I might be interested in fatherhood. But honestly, I'm not grown up yet myself.
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I enjoy fatherhood.
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On a deeper level, if our sons are learning they are obscene, disgusting, and untrustworthy, is this the best preparation for fatherhood? And is it the best preparation for becoming a mother - to feel this way about her son?
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Nothing threatens a father’s involvement in the family more than his obligation to be the family’s 'financial womb,' creating 'The Father’s ‘Catch-22’': loving the family by being away from the family. It is the irony of traditional fatherhood: being a father by not being a father.
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Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world.
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Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.
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If you were placing bets on which author would write the tenderest, most moving book about fatherhood, Philip Roth would probably come in at the bottom of the list.
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Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying.
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Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.
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Fatherhood is an honor, and men should be strong enough to step up to the plate.
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Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are!
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The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.
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Creating fatherhood means creating a major psychological shift. Both sexes find it's difficult to fully share the psychological responsibility for the other sex's traditional role - especially when the other sex is around. – page 90.
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Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
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We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is "soap-on-a-rope."
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Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close and nurturing, not distant and authoritarian. Fatherhood as more than bread winning. Fatherhood as new-and-improved masculinity. Fathers unafraid of feelings. Fathers without sexism. Fatherhood as fifty-fifty parenthood, undistorted by arbitrary gender divisions or stifling social roles.
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Not all Masons are obligated on the Christian Bible. Masonry is universal and men of every creed are eligible for membership so long as they accept the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. Therefore, the candidate should be obligated on the Book of the Sacred Law which he accepts as such since his obligation is a solemn and binding one.
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I was a youngish man entering fatherhood when we wrote 'Woods,' a patchwork of classic fairy tales with an original tale sewn in. I had dedicated my libretto to my baby daughter.
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I was shy talking about certain things, and I was shy with being honest because I didn't want people to judge me talking about fatherhood and how somebody should have my child around me.
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At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.
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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.
