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This father always relates to his children in perfect love. This father is never absent. He is never disinterested. He is never preoccupied. He is never unable to respond to a need.
Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.
The stories of young men searching for their fathers are the stories of young men who through their adventures father themselves by doing for themselves what they hoped a father would do for them. ("Anthropology: What Is Lost In Rotation")
Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!
Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.
I'm born to be a father. And I've been looking forward to this all my life.
Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.
Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.
We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.
The author says this socially respectable option NOT to parent has actually made parenthood more stressful. The knowledge that parents have chosen that role allows for unrealistic buildup of expectations and unavoidable second-guessing.
Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.
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Paternity is a long way from fatherhood.
A family needs a father to anchor it.
Being a parent is amazing.
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
We need a new kind of relationship with the Father that drives out fear and mistrust and anxiety and guilt, that permits us to be hopeful and joyous, trusting and compassionate.
Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.
Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.
Fathers, your are the head and strength of the family unit. If you are not in place, there is a weakness in the link.
I think I'm a father, but a father of three kids!
What I love most about fatherhood is the opportunity to be a part of the development process of a new life.
He wanted a father, and for the same reason, he wanted to be a father.
Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.
Be more than a father, be a dad. Be more than a figure, be an example.
There are many men but rare fathers
He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.
That's not a father. That's a sperm donor. Forget him. He's a mess. Concentrate on me. I'm terrific. -(Linc Blaise)
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
I also want you to know that a father isn't someone who helps produce a child. It's the person who loves that child and raises them as his own
A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence.
Daddy.
I was struck with the magnitude of what that meant, the responsibility of being a father. Waves of devotion swept through me as I silently promised her I would always be there for her, would always love her, would be the best father I could possibly be.
Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.
Being a father is just great. I love every minute - even the rubbish, middle-of-the night stuff.
The child shall become father to the man.
Fathers are so necessary as examples and guides for our children in wisdom and virtue. Without father figures, young people often feel orphaned; left adrift at a critical moment in their growth and development.
Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.
More broadly across time and cultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderly toward their children. The New Father, it turns out, is an old story.
Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.
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.
Father of fathers, make me one, A fit example for a son.
Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.
One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.
Too many times I'd left him reaching for me, from a babysitter's arms. "Am I still a mother?" I asked myself ... What parts of the day could I cut out and still give him enough? Paul never asked himself that. He thought he was a great dad.
Father of fathers!
Men were often far different in their roles as fathers than they were as suitors, the memories of which kept them, out of necessity, both vigilant and violent, and even in tender moments, to their daughters.
I've always liked the idea of being a father. And I've always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.
Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am. Undoubtedly, there are other routes to learning the wishes and dreams of the presumably opposite sex, but I know of none more direct, or more highly motivating, than being the mother of sons.
The guys who fear becoming
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that perfects the man. The end product of child
raising is not the child, but the parent.
The number one thing I've been doing is being daddy.
The child is father of the man:
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.
Fatherhood is the most amazing thing that could ever have happened in my life.
Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.
The end of parenthood is implicit in its beginning: separation.
The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road.
Industrialization created the Father's Catch-22:;: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.
Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.
Having a son is not all pleasure.
To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness.
Virgin to father in zero to sixty
Let me share my loving care upon those who are not my children - yet, willing to see me as their Father.
When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.
Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on.
There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.
Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and show us how tobe men. He can escape us, but we can never escape him. Present or absent, dead or alive, real or imagined, our father is the main man in our masculinity.
A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories of tender closeness with his own father. A man who has been able to accept tenderness from his father is able later in life to be tender with his own children.
You cannot begin to understand the failure of marriage - or the living of these ideas commitment or covenant - without considering and factoring in the devaluing of fatherhood. The two are inextricably linked and dependent.
Father: an inspirational person; emulated, admired and much loved; strong character with exceptional patience and unrivalled wisdom; often referred to as a son's first hero and a daughter's first love.
The most fundamental flaw in society is fatherlessness.
Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.
I like being a mother.
Fatherhood surprised him pleasantly. As a male he assumed no unpleasant duties would accrue to him. He would be responsible for teaching the child conversational skills once it reached its teens.
To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description ...
The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.
Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
I'm a big fan of fatherhood, and I'm a big fan of my family.
Don't look for a life virtually free from discomfort, pain, pressure, challenge, or grief, for those are the tools a loving Father uses to stimulate our personal growth and understanding.
Whatever else a father is in this life - cop, fireman, Indian chief - he provides for his family. He
If the father cannot, the son will finish the task.
It is not for nothing that the king of a commonwealth is called "Sire"; humanly speaking, of the callings of fatherhood and kingship, the deeper and more primordial is fatherhood.
Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence
Fathers must always be giving if they would be happy themselves; always giving - they would not be fathers else.
When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing', that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.
Of children as of procreation
the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable
Parenthood brings profound pleasure and satisfactions
the unparalleled pleasure of caring so intensely for another human being, of watching growth, of reliving childhood, of seeing oneself in a new perspective, and of understanding more about life.
To have committed every crime but that of being a father.
I suspect that the distinction between a maternal and a paternal instinct is scarcely worth making; the parental instinct, the wish to protect, to further, is not a sex-linked characteristic ...
A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
After years of pitched battles, my father was ready for a significantly less stressful career. Unfortunately, he decided to try raising a girl.
was pregnant, his father had written back
Someday I'd like to be a father, not of a human child, but something more reasonable.
While I didn't have a father around, I did have - and what I want my children to both experience - the ability to explore, experiment and enjoy life as a kid.
Parenting is a profoundly reciprocal process: we, the shapers of our children's lives, are also being shaped. As we struggle to beparents, we are forced to encounter ourselves; and if we are willing to look at what is happening between us and our children, we may learn how we came to be who we are.
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
Being a father is an everyday challenge. It goes on and on.
The most rewarding part about being a dad is just looking at children who didn't exist at some point. The first time you saw them, they were the size of a quarter, in a sonogram, and now they can pour orange juice and yell at each other.
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.