1.
You must sacrifice every thought, every ideology for the good of the nation and for the serenity of our fatherhood.
Francisco Franco
You must subjugate every notion, every philosophy for the benefit of the country and for the composure of our parentage.
2.
When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
Sam Ewing
When you eventually return to the place of your upbringing, you realise it is not the location itself that was missed, but rather the memories of your younger days.
4.
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
Dennis Potter
5.
What I love most about fatherhood is the opportunity to be a part of the development process of a new life.
Seal
6.
Every dad, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his fatherhood, can learn ways to become an even better dad.
Jack Baker
7.
Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.
Dwyane Wade
8.
Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.
Charles Spurgeon
9.
Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.
A. Theodore Tuttle
10.
I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
Uma Thurman
12.
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
13.
I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.
Bobby Flay
14.
No better blessing than the responsibility of fatherhood.
Stephen Curry
15.
Fatherhood, to me, isn't something you do for awards or acclaim. It's a privilege and a huge responsibility
Dwyane Wade
16.
The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.
Eleanor Farjeon
18.
Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood
Chris Hadfield
19.
I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.
Edna O'Brien
20.
Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!
Max Muller
21.
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
Maya Lin
22.
I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.
Homer
23.
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
Margaret Mead
24.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
Pindar
25.
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
26.
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
Jorge Luis Borges
27.
You can't answer a kid's question. A kid never accepts any answer. A kid never says, 'Oh, thanks. I get it.'... They just keep coming with more questions - why, why, why? - until you don't even know who the fk you are anymore at the end of the conversation. It's an insane deconstruction.
Louis C. K.
28.
Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth; it is a matter of desire, diligence, and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.
Ezra Taft Benson
29.
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
30.
Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
Beryl Bainbridge
31.
Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.
Rob Reiner
32.
Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.
Michael Foot
33.
My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.
Poppy Z. Brite
34.
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
Bernard Berenson
35.
I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.
Tina Yothers
37.
Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.
William Howard Taft
38.
I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
Kurt Cobain
39.
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
40.
I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.
Norman Wisdom
41.
It is impossible to overstate the need for prayer in the fabric of family life.
James Dobson
42.
Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
George Will
43.
Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.
Gerald Scarfe
44.
I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever.
Guy Ritchie
45.
The power of this experience [fatherhood] can never be explained. It is one of those joyful codings that rumbles in the species far below understanding. When it is experienced it makes you one with all men in a way that fills you with warmth and harmony.
Kent Nerburn
46.
I don't think fatherhood's changed me so much as it's conjured protective instincts I've had all along.
Jim Goad
47.
You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.
Ron Perlman
49.
Fatherhood changes you completely. If things didn't go my way before, I became withdrawn and didn't want to see or listen to anyone. Now, when I arrive home, I see my son and everything is OK. He's the most important thing to me now.
Lionel Messi
50.
The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.
John Green