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.

Amish Tripathi

A man does not become a father merely through his body. A man earns the privilege of fatherhood with his protection, his care, his ability to provide. A man earns fatherhood by being worthy of emulation. A man earns fatherhood through love.

Andrea Bocelli

Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.

Andrew Galasetti

Papas should be loving their children so much that they cry when they gone. That’s what papas is supposed to do.

Andrew Pettegree

Like many men who experience fatherhood relatively late in life, Martin Luther was a devoted parent. Luther wrote his children letters of touching intensity, patiently converting the joys of the Christian life into a language of storytelling fit for the very young. A home with children brought out the best in Luther in a way that theological disputation patently did not.

Angelina Jolie

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

Angelo Patri

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.

Anonymous

Fatherhood became my ideology.

Anthony Doerr

There is a humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That's how it feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane.

Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles

The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.

Arne Duncan

There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.

Asa Don Brown

As fathers, we should have a desire to be active participants in our children’s lives.

As a father, we need to actively listen.

Ben Fountain

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. Such a small person! Not much bigger than a loaf of bread at first, yet it takes so much to keep the whole enterprise going. Logistics, skills, materiel; the only way we really learn is by figuring it out as we go along, and even then it changes on us every day, so we’re always improvising, which is a fancy way of saying that we’re doing things we technically don’t know how to do.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

Buffalo Bill

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

C.J. Tudor

Wise man. Kids from the moment they’re born, they fill your heart with love…and terror. Especially little girls. You want to protect them from everything. And they you can’t, you feel like you’ve failed as a father. You’ve saved yourself a lot of pain by not having children.

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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.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A father is as much a verb as a mother.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The call of fatherhood is in fact a call of sacrifice, not in some heroic sense where a father is lifted high on some glowing pedestal with all of his sacrifices held up to the awe of those around him. Rather, it is a call that will cost him all that he has, that will be absent of accolades, where rewards will be sparse, and where he will someday find himself having spent all, but in the spending have gained everything. And this is the glory of fatherhood.

Chris Hemsworth

I think [parenthood] brings out the child in all of us. That’s what’s so beautiful. It reminds you of the fascination you had with things, and how you can spend hours just being with someone. It’s amazing.

Chris Pratt

I’ve gotten to jump out of helicopters and do daring stunts and play baseball in a professional stadium, but none of them mean anything compared to being somebody’s daddy.

Why not share this as a heartwarming gift?

Christopher Meloni

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

Cindy Crawford

Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.

Connie Kerbs

Motherhood (and fatherhood) is one of the most important, while at the same time being one of the most long-time, unappreciated roles we may ever find ourselves in. Add to that, it seems at times to be taken as much for granted by our society at large, as by the developing young we pour our all into. Quality parenting is also wrought with joy and satisfaction at every turn, being one of the most rewarding, and fulfilling experiences we have the opportunity to know in this thing we call the human condition.

Cormac McCarthy

They slept huddled together in the rank quilts in the dark and the cold. He held the boy close to him. So thin. My heart, he said. My heart.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.

Dr. Tony Beizaee

When you learn to live unselfishly in united adoration of your beloved family, you have fulfilled the art of Fatherhood.

David Beckham

In my career, there’s many things I’ve won and many things I’ve achieved, but for me, my greatest achievement is my children and my family.

David Bowie

I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!

David Cassidy

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

David Harewood

Fatherhood is a joy. I feel very lucky to have a family. It gives you a perspective on things.

Debasish Mridha

I love you Daddy, not because you always loved my, because you are always living inside of me as an inspiration of my being.

DeForest Kelley

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

Dimitri the Stoneheart

A father doesn’t tell you that he loves you. He shows you.

Don DeLillo

He found his cigar smoldering in an ashtray on the liquor cabinet and he fired it up again. The aroma gave him a sense of robust health. He smelled well-being, long life, even placid fatherhood, somewhere, in the burning leaf.

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Dwyane Wade

Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.

Emile Gaboriau

A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely.

George Strait

Daddies don’t just love their children every now and then, it’s a love without end.

Hendrith Vanlon Smith, Jr.

Fathers have unique value, and we are irreplaceable in the hearts of our children.

The importance of fatherhood is indisputable. And children always reach for their fathers.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Howard W. Hunter

One of the greatest things a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Jim DeMint

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to be one.

Jim Valvano

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me.

John Green

A father’s love still travels on after he’s gone. A treasure hidden in the hearts of his children.

John Legend

It’s a different kind of love. It’s very pure. It’s unconditional.

Ken Norton

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

Kevin Costner

It almost seemed impossible to love the first [child] any more than you loved them. And then suddenly the second one comes, and you think there’s so much room for love. There’s so much room.

LeBron James

My favourite thing about being a father is just seeing my kids grow and do some of the same things that I did when I was a kid, man.

Len Filppu

When faced with first time fatherhood at the age of 49, I didn’t know whether to celebrate with champagne… or hemlock.

Melvina Young

Dad hugs are strong hugs that can say so many things, like ‘I’ve got you. I’m always right here. And I’ll always love you.'

Michael Bublé

Fatherhood is the greatest thing that could ever happen. You can’t explain it until it happens; it’s like telling somebody what water feels like before they’ve ever swam in it.

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Mike Myers

Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.

Ron Baratono

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

Ryan Reynolds

It’s amazing that you can be that exhausted and that happy at the same time.

Seth Meyers

It is so embarrassing how I went from a person who did not care about anyone’s children. Then you have them, and you brag about the same stuff that you never cared about. And you tell people, ‘He’s got four teeth,’ like they care.

Tom Daley

My dad was an incredibly brave man, completely dedicated to his family, with a love for all of us. If I can be half the dad he was to me then that will be an achievement in itself.

Unknown

Dad: A son’s first hero, a daughter’s first love.

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