Fatherhood Quotes - Page 12

• I don't think fatherhood's changed me so much as it's conjured protective instincts I've had all along.

  Jim Goad

  Thinking, Instinct, Changed

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• All are brothers and sisters. All are one, be alike to every­one. That is Unity... the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Brother, Men, Unity

  Source: souljourns.net

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• My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Father, Humorous

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• The first idea of Captain Fantastic was a pretty radically different one. The genesis had to do with parenting and questions about parenthood and fatherhood specifically. I have two kids and I was grappling with what my values were and what I wanted to pass to my children. So I was positing different kinds of parents and different ways of parenting. I played with various ideas - very permissive parenting, very restrictive parenting and then I came up with the character of Viggo Mortensen, and much of it was aspirational, some of it was autobiographical.

  Matt Ross

  Children, Character, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• What do I owe my father? Everything!

  Henry Van Dyke

  Father

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• Of course there were areas of safety; nothing could get at me if I curled up on my father's lap, holding his ear with one thumb tucked into it... All about him was safe.

  Naomi Mitchison

  Fathers Day, Safety, Lap

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• My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

  Frank McCourt

  Long, Childhood, Brooklyn

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• Fatherhood has taught me when it's too quiet my kids are usually sinning. God the Father knows the same. Are you praying?

  Mark Hart

  Father, Kids, Taught

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.35, Franciscan Media

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• Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub.

  Irene Dunne

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Trying

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• Fatherhood: How God blesses you out of your selfishness and floods your soul with love, all while reminding you how little you know.

  Mark Hart

  Soul, Selfishness, Littles

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• Christ has given us the most glorious interpretation of life's meaning that man has ever had. The fatherhood of God, the fellowship of the Spirit, the sovereignty of righteousness, the law of love, the glory of service, the coming of the Kingdom, the eternal hope- there was never an interpretation of life to compare with that.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Men, Law, Kingdoms

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• Fatherhood makes you cute. Women find bumbling fathers cute and attractive.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Cute, Father, Attractive

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• Dads are the leaders in their homes, and our kids need leaders.

  Greg Schiano

  Dad, Home, Kids

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• Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Helping, Language

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• Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.

  William Bennett

  Children, Real, Mean

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• Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the house, as if it's part of the collective brain that was further enhanced by eighth-grade shop class.

  Bob Newhart

  Believe, Thinking, Class

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• When rappers call each other son it leads me to believe they don't take fatherhood very seriously.

  Dov Davidoff

  Believe, Son, Rapper

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• The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their reverential and loving fear. And they are the children who will come to understand most easily the mystery of the fatherhood of God.

  John Piper

  Children, Father, Winning

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