Fatherhood Quotes - Page 2

• Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Real, Hero, Son

  "The Complete Robert Downey Jr". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 16, 2012.

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• It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mothers Day, Mom, Daughter

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, September 1990.

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• If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Growing Up, Parenting

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1868). “John Ploughman's Talk; or, plain advice for plain people”, p.35

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• It is a wise father that knows his own child.

  William Shakespeare

  Family, Wise, Meaningful

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 2, l. [83]

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• Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.

  Dwyane Wade

  Voice, Share, Happy Fathers Day Mom

  Interview with Jared Zwerling, www.espn.com. September 29, 2011.

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• Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Writing, Emotional, Childhood

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• The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

  Confucius

  Fathers Day, Dad, Children

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• When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

  Sam Ewing

  Home, Childhood, Nostalgia

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• When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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  My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

  Jim Valvano

  Inspirational, Basketball, Daughter

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• Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

  David Gottesman

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Mother

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• There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.

  Bob Phillips

  Funny, Christmas, Dad

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• Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.

  Ray Romano

  Funny, Fathers Day, Children

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• It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

  Kent Nerburn

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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• I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

  Sigmund Freud

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Strong

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

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• My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Children, Parenting

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• Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

  William Wordsworth

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.307

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• A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

  Enid Bagnold

  Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Baby

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• The greatest gift I ever had
  Came from God; I call him Dad!

  John Walter Bratton

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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• A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

  Frank A. Clark

  Funny, Dad, Father

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• There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

  Maria Callas

  Children, Responsibility, Should Have

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• 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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• My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

  Harry S. Truman

  Father, Failure, 4th Of July

  Harry S. Truman (1966). “Good old Harry: the wit and wisdom of Harry S. Truman”

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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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