quotes about Fatherhood
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Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.
-- A. Theodore Tuttle -
Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.
-- Andrea BocelliSource : "'My hands are frozen and my heart races': Andrea Bocelli says crippling stage fright is like an incurable disease" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. February 8, 2013.
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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 -
I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.
-- Bobby Flay -
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Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood
-- Chris Hadfield -
Fatherhood is the most amazing thing that could ever have happened in my life.
-- Corey Feldman -
Leading a family is the hardest job a man can ever have.
-- Dave Ramsey -
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The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a social role for men.
-- David Blankenhorn -
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
-- Dennis Potter -
Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.
-- Dwyane WadeSource : Interview with Jared Zwerling, www.espn.com. September 29, 2011.
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Fatherhood, to me, isn't something you do for awards or acclaim. It's a privilege and a huge responsibility
-- Dwyane Wade -
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 -
You must sacrifice every thought, very ideology for the good of the nation and for the serenity of our fatherhood.
-- Francisco Franco -
Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.
-- Gerald Scarfe -
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I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever.
-- Guy Ritchie -
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 -
It is impossible to overstate the need for prayer in the fabric of family life.
-- James Dobson -
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 -
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Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
-- Jon Stewart -
Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently its the most difficult thing in the world.
-- Kelly Slater -
Fatherhood isn't always a planned thing, but when it happens you just do it. It's very natural and in that sense it's not really difficult.
-- Kelly Slater -
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 -
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I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
-- Kurt Cobain -
Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe.
-- Lucy Corin -
The brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God; and to deny the one is no less infidel than to deny the other.
-- Lyman Abbott -
Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!
-- Max Muller -
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It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
-- Maya Lin -
So my reaction to hearing this corny-ass, horrible song ["With Arms Wide Open" by Creed] is violent, uncontrollable, sustained weeping.
-- Michael Ian Black -
Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.
-- Mike Myers -
The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything.
-- Mona Simpson -
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Universal brotherhood under the fatherhood of God.
-- Pandurang Shastri Athavale -
I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!
-- Rich Sommer -
My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.
-- Robert B. Laughlin -
When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
-- Sam Ewing -
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
-- Sammy Davis, Jr. -
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 -
What I love most about fatherhood is the opportunity to be a part of the development process of a new life.
-- Seal -
I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.
-- Sidney Poitier -
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I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.
-- Tina Yothers -
Fatherhood didnt change me in the beginning very much.
-- Tom Sizemore -
I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
-- Uma Thurman -
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 -
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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 -
I'm about to turn 48, and I think that the closer I get to 50, the more I might be interested in fatherhood. But honestly, I'm not grown up yet myself.
-- John Benjamin Hickey -
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 LeadbeaterSource : Charles Webster Leadbeater (1920). “The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals”
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To recover the fatherhood idea, we must fashion a new cultural story of fatherhood. The moral of today's story is that fatherhoodis superfluous. The moral of the new story must be that fatherhood is essential.
-- David Blankenhorn -