Fatherhood Quotes

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

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

Universal brotherhood under the fatherhood of God.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

What I love most about fatherhood is the opportunity to be a part of the development process of a new life.

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.

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

Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.

Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.

What do I owe my father? Everything!

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.

Fatherhood, to me, isn't something you do for awards or acclaim. It's a privilege and a huge responsibility

No better blessing than the responsibility of fatherhood.

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood

Life doesn't come with an instruction book; that's why we have fathers.

I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

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.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

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

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.

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.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

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.

The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.

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.

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

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.

I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.

It is impossible to overstate the need for prayer in the fabric of family life.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

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.

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.

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

Being a dad is more important than football.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

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.

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.

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

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks