Much of life, fatherhood included, is the story of knowledge acquired too late: If only I’d known then what I know now, how much smarter, abler, stronger, I would have been. But nothing really prepares you for kids, for the swells of emotion that roll through your chest like the rumble of boulders tumbling downhill, nor for the all-enveloping labor of it, the sheer mulish endurance you need for the six or seven hundred discrete tasks that have to be done each and every day.

Carl Veraha

I felt something I had never felt before, a mixture of fear and pride. I liked it. This was fatherhood. The biggest mistake anyone could make, and yet universally accepted. I had arrived.

Charles Kettering

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

A father is the man who realizes that a life spent in the service of his children is the creation of a legacy so vast that it can be deeply drawn from for generations to come, but it will never be emptied by any who come to it.

David Frost

Having one child makes you a parent. Having two kids makes you a referee.

Eugene Levy

Don’t think you're better than your kid. Your kids usually have ideas that are better than yours that you may not understand.

Fela Durotoye

Real Fathers are men of integrity & honour. Their word is their bond.

George Bernard Shaw

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Gloria Naylor

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

George Herbert

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Gregory David Roberts

Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child.

Hanya Yanagihara

I thought those thoughts all men think when a woman tells them she’s pregnant: What would the baby look like? Would I like it? Would I love it? And then, more crushingly: fatherhood. With all its responsibilities and fulfillments and tedium and possibilities for failure.

Henry Ward Beecher

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

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J. Sterling

… anyone could father a child, but a real man chooses to be a dad.

Jim Gaffigan

There should be a children’s song: ‘If you’re happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let dad sleep.’

Joan Ambu

Being a father is a choice. Staying true to fatherhood is a duty.

Lady Gaga

I love my Daddy. My Daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

Liam Neeson

I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I'm acting. It's always, 'When I say you'll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?' Then, 'Yeah, Dad.'

Marinela Reka

Being a daddy’s girl is like having a permanent armor for the rest of your life.

Mekael Shane

Sons are born to make their fathers better men.

Oliver Hudson

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

Orson Scott Card

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

Pam Brown

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventures, story-tellers, and singers of songs.

Phil McGraw

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.’

Rick Riordan

A father should do more - a father should give more to his children than he takes.

Ron Baratono

The finest compliment a man can receive from a woman, is to be told he’s a wonderful father.

Ken Norton

Of all the titles I’ve been privileged to have, ‘Dad’ has always been the best.

Steve Martin

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

Sunday Adelaja

Fatherhood is a man's main goal and appointed purpose in life

Susan Gale

A father’s smile has been known to light up a child’s entire day.

Tim Allen

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

Unknown

A little girl giggles when she is denied an ice cream by her mother. She knows daddy will get her some later.

A father holds his daughter's hand for a short while, but he holds her heart forever.

Walter M. Schirra

You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.

Zadie Smith

You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.

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