Fathering Quotes

• 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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• 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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• Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.

  Frank Pittman

  Strength, Strong, Children

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• The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child-raising is not the child but the parent.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Dad, Father

  "Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity". Book by Frank Pittman, www.today.com. 1993.

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• Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Men, Daddy

  "Fathers and Sons" by Frank Pittman, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1993.

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• Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.

  Steven Spielberg

  Jobs, Kids, Directors

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• Walk a little slower, Dad
  Cos I am only small.
  I'm following in your footsteps,
  And I don't want to fall.
  Someday when I'm all grown up.
  You're what I want to be;
  Then I will have a little child,
  Who'll want to follow me.
  And I would want to lead just right,
  And know that I was true;
  So, walk a little slower, Dad,
  For I must follow you.
  A very very very Happy Birthday Dad

  John Walter Bratton

  Children, Dad, Fall

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• Being a father can unreason your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. Its sad that childrens open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum.

  Clyde Edgerton

  Fun, Father, Play

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• To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

  John F. Kennedy

  Writing, Army, America

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• During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

  Florence King

  Men, Rocks, Feminist

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.51, Macmillan

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• My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

  Quentin Crisp

  Fathers Day, Mother, Dad

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• Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.

  Barack Obama

  Fathers Day, Jobs, Dad

  Twitter post from Jun 19, 2011

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• My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

  Clarence Budington Kelland

  Life, Fathers Day, Children

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  The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

  Frank Pittman

  Men, Perfect Parents, Being A Parent

  "Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity". Book by Frank Pittman, www.today.com. 1993.

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• There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

  Gertrude Stein

  Boyfriend, Depressing, Father

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.146, Vintage

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• I didn't want to teach my kid how to read, so I used to read to him at night and close the book at the most interesting part.  He said, “What happened then, daddy?”  I said, “If you learn to read, you can find out.  I'm too tired to read.  I'll read to you tomorrow.”  So, he had a need to want to learn how to read.  Don't teach children how to read.  Don't teach them mathematics.  Give them a reason to want it.  In school, they're working ass-backwards.

  Jacque Fresco

  Motivational, Children, Reading

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• If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just needs to be there.

  Frank Pittman

  Running, Father, Needs

  "Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity". Book by Frank Pittman (Chapter 6), 1993.

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• There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Games, Stressful Situations

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• People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and poised? I tell them, don't ask me what I did. Ask me what I did not do. I did not clip her wings, and that's all.

  Ziauddin Yousafzai

  Education, Courage, Wings

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• A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.

  Jean Liedloff

  Baby, Children, Parenting

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• You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

  Robert Frost

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

  Robert Frost, Elaine Barry (1973). “Robert Frost on writing”, Rutgers Univ Pr

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• In a world often marked by selfishness, a large family is a school of solidarity and sharing; and this attitude is to the benefit of society as a whole.... I always thank the Lord in seeing mothers and fathers of large families, together with their children, committed to the life of the Church and of society.

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Children, Attitude

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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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• A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Fathers Day, Dad, Men

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 15, 2014

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