389 Quotes About Fatherhood

You know, Marco, they can leave us, they can grow old, but it's like they're still here, running around our feet, just like when they were little tykes.

Maybe what a son evoked in a father was different than what a daughter evoked? It would be all right. She was only afraid that when time passed, it would not be these trips to the library he would remember, or his eagerness to learn how she made roti in the kitchen with him as her helper, but how upset he would become when Rafiq scolded him.

One of the temptations Christian men face is the temptation of thinking that all the obligations attending fatherhood are wrapped up in the simple task of "breadwinning". But there is a trap. Providing the money a household needs instead of providing yourself is a problem. The biblical approach is that of giving provision as a representation of yourself, and the difference between the two approaches is profound.

Love itself is what is left over when one being in love is burned away, and this is both an art and option that accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that group of each other on the ground and when all the pretty blossoms branches. We found that we were one tree and not two.

Don’t give in to him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is.

I'll tell you a secret: Every adult was a kid once and is learning how to be a parent along the way.

What I didn't know to expect is that today, I would feel like I'd been born too. You have made a new person: January's father. And I know this is who I will be for the rest of my life.

… con sẽ còn phải giữ bình tĩnh trước những điều còn tệ hại hơn… Vậy là không công bằng cho Jem và con, bố biết vậy, nhưng nhiều khi mình phải cố làm tốt trong mọi chuyện và cả trong cách chúng ta ứng xử vào những lúc khó khăn… ồ, bố chỉ có thể nói là, khi con và Jem lớn khôn, có thể con sẽ nhìn lại chuyện này với lòng nhân hậu và với cảm xúc nào đó rằng bố đã không làm con thất vọng.

Biology does not make a man a father--nor a woman a mother. We are what we do.