389 Quotes About Fatherhood

The saying “it takes a village” is true with everything in life, but especially while caring for and raising children.

I think my father is like the Holy Trinity with three people in him, the one in the morning with the paper, the one at night with the stories and the prayers, and then the one who does the bad thing and comes home with the smell of whiskey and wants us to die for Ireland.

It is our job as parents, to instill principles and values in our children. So that when they depart from you, those principles and values won’t depart from them. Mallory Bullard, a street soldier from the old school.

Chip scooped her up mid dash and swung her up to cover her face with kisses.She squealed and laughed and said, “Nooo!”Chip stopped. “No?”“ Not now.”“Ok.”Chip set her down and she scampered off into the kitchenI liked how he respected her boundaries, even though she was a toddler. I thought that was really cool.

and do I really want a son to carry on my idiocy past the Horned Gates

Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy

My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I understand them.

How can you be a 'Former-Father'? Is it possible to be a father but, because someone or something is determined to illegalize it, being a father becomes a thing of the past? Should you simply consign yourself to be effectively dead to your living children; as though the fact of being their father has somehow been terminated, nullified or otherwise, deemed non-existent? I believe the basic answer to be 'No!

A faraway-father is distant from his children; not necessarily in geography, but socially—either by choice or by force. Our country has many fathers who are figuratively-forced far and away from their families. Legal force brings to bear disparate dads through such innovations as no-fault divorce, legal precedence, and post-divorce incrimination. I am one of these parents—portrayed or profiled as 'perpetrator'.