389 Quotes About Fatherhood

For every guy who loves being a dad, there’s another who realizes too late that he’s created something his wife loves more than him.

I know that not every family is a clean-cut nuclear Mom and Dad at home situation - but I think every father needs to do whatever he can to be present in the lives of his kids. If you are in a situation where you have not been - fight for it. Don’t give up till you get it. Don’t be a jerk about it - don’t “fight” mom - but “fight” whatever things tell you to just give up. Send cards, make phone calls, pay your support, and do whatever you can to be present in the lives of your children.

We were immortal, did you know that? Did you feel it like me? We had the world at our feet and we were going to live forever. Then came life – growing inside you – and I became mortal.

...having a child is like casting off your own childhood forever. It's as if it's only then that you really grasp what it means to be a man. You're scared too that all your weaknesses will be laid bare, because fatherhood demands more than you can give.... I always felt I had to earn your love, because I loved you so, so much.

That the man is usually the one who works, or works the most hours, has deceived us into thinking that the child is naturally closer to the mother than it is to the father.

I abandoned her. It's the one capital crime of fatherhood. Mothers can fail a thousand different ways. A father's only job is: do not abandon this child.

No man wants his daughter to be the kind of girl whom he liked in high school.

The health of your future kids does not start with their birth—it starts with you, right now, well before you plan to impregnate your wife.

The greatest investment you can do in your life is in gaining time.