Fatherhood Quotes - Page 9

• Oh, fatherhood has a very humanising effect on a bloke like me in the military. As a dad, you become absolutely aware of your own human frailty and a need to be nurturing and compassionate and fatherly

  Peter Cosgrove

  Dad, Military, Men

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• Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

  Margaret Mead

  Motherhood, Facts, Social

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• Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

  June Jordan

  Children, Motherhood, Thinking

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• The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a social role for men.

  David Blankenhorn

  Men, Challenges, Roles

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• The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.

  David Blankenhorn

  Children, School, Men

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• All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don't know how to be a man with a woman, only abrute or a boy, who fill up the divorce courts; all those corporate raiders and rain-forest burners and war starters who want more in hopes that will make them feel better; . . . are suffering from Father Hunger. They go through their puberty rituals day after day for a lifetime, waiting for a father to anoint them and say "Attaboy," to treat them as good enough to be considered a man.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, War, Rain

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• Jesse Jackson also said he thought Barack Obama was talking down to black people by lecturing them on things like fatherhood and being a responsible husband. Jesse thought it was insulting, not only to him, but to his former mistress and their love child.

  Jay Leno

  Children, Husband, Talking

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• My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.

  Natasha Josefowitz

  Fathers Day, Daughter, Dad

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• Not only do our wives need support, but our children need our deep involvement in their lives. If this period [the early years] ofprimitive needs and primitive caretaking passes without us, it is lost forever. We can be involved in other ways, but never again on this profoundly intimate level.

  Augustus Napier

  Children, Years, Wife

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• This is not to say that becoming a father automatically makes you a good father. Fatherhood, like marriage, is a constant struggle against your limitations and self-interests. But the urge to be a perfect father is there, because your child is a perfect gift.

  Kent Nerburn

  Marriage, Children, Father

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• But after about a year praying, there was just this clear direction. The leadership team believed that God was leading us to focus on fatherhood. If God is leading, then God will provide. So we begin to get storyline ideas that lined up with the subject of fatherhood that we're working on and fitting, and we were thinking, okay this is good. At the same time, as we are studying scriptures and we're on our journey as fathers, we are learning about fatherhood every day.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Father, Team, Journey

  "Interview With ‘Courageous’ Producer Stephen Kendrick". Interview with Cheryl Wicker, sonomachristianhome.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Universal brotherhood under the fatherhood of God.

  Pandurang Shastri Athavale

  Brotherhood, Ethics, Universal

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• Fatherhood means a great deal to me. I love it. To me, there aint nothing better, because your kids keep it real with you. When you think things are bad, you look at them and they show you how things could be all right, and it's all worth it.

  Martin Lawrence

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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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?

  Warren Farrell

  Mother, Son, Preparation

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught me patience. They've also taught me that I don't need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme.

  Pete Wentz

  Emotional, Two, Needs

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• Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mean, Motherhood, Frustrated

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• In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

  June Jordan

  Children, Motherhood, Names

  June Jordan (2003). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.277, Basic Books

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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.

  John Benjamin Hickey

  Thinking, Might, Honestly

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• When a man does not live with his children and does not get along with the mother of his children, his fatherhood becomes essentially untenable, regardless of how he feels, how hard he tries, or whether he is a good guy. Almost by definition, he has become de-fathered.

  David Blankenhorn

  Mother, Children, Men

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• To recover the fatherhood idea, we must fashion a new cultural story of fatherhood. The moral of today's story is that fatherhoodis superfluous. The moral of the new story must be that fatherhood is essential.

  David Blankenhorn

  Fashion, Ideas, Essentials

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• Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

  Gerald Scarfe

  Children, Childhood, Bed

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• The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Ideas, Forgiving, Grudge

  Charles Webster Leadbeater (1920). “The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals”

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• Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven.

  James E. Faust

  Father, Giving, Heaven

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• You must sacrifice every thought, every ideology for the good of the nation and for the serenity of our fatherhood.

  Francisco Franco

  Sacrifice, Serenity, Ideology

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• That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

  Satish Kumar

  Morning, Childhood, Evening

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