Life Celebration Quotes
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A.K. Kuykendall
Son, we are all products of operant conditioning. By daring to think outside the box, you'll be judged. Stay the course. Heightened cognizance is meaningful only when freely sought out and discovered. Not when it is incrementally spoon-fed to you throughout your lifetime.
Adrian Leslie Lobo
The word “FATHER” holds significant value in the bible for a reason… Family. Provider. Aftermath. Teacher. Trusted. Protector. Hidden Fighter. Essence of Living. Root to your origin. Remember; You are the reason why this world exists.
Anonymous
In another of his most famous essays, Montaigne argued that to philosophise is to learn to die. I learned how to die with fatherhood. From the day Tito was born, I was completely cancelled out by him. I lost my will. I ceased to exist. Only a dead person can cease to exist. If philosophising is learning to die, then fatherhood is the philosophy of the ordinary man, the philosophy of the poor in spirit, the philosophy of the masses.
Asa Don Brown
Fatherhood is the greatest education a man can ever receive.
Barack Obama
It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.
Brad Paisley
Looking back all I can say about all the things he did for me is I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be.
Brad Pitt
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.
C.S. Lewis
An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe.
Camryn Manheim
One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
Dante Hall
I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father, and friend.
Denzel Washington
The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They’re not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion — to care about people and about your children.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Of Teddy Roosevelt and his siblings, the author writes they were, "armed with an innate curiosity and discipline fostered by his remarkable father.”
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.
Fahad Basheer
Every man can provide provision to his children if he is committed and hardworking but a man who fails to enter into the depths of the mind of his children is not is father, but a master who owns a slave!
Frank Abagnale
We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.
Frank Bruno
I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad.
Frank Pittman
The guys who fear becoming fathers don’t understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child-raising is not the child but the parent.
Franz Kafka
My health is only just good enough for myself alone, not good enough for marriage, let alone fatherhood. Yet when I read your letter, I feel I could overlook even what cannot possibly be overlooked.
George Herbert
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
George Saunders
He was a father. That’s what a father does. Eases the burdens of those he loves.
Gordon Brown
I’m a father; that’s what matters most. Nothing matters more.
Haley Joel Osment
My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
Hanif Kureishi
My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I understand them.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
When I meet other men in business, I want to know what their relationship with their children is like. I think a mans role as a father says something about who he is as a businessman and the quality of leader he is.
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Henri J.M. Nouwen
You're called to become a father who can welcome his children home without asking them any questions and without wanting anything from them in return. Most people around you don’t need you to be a good friend or even a kind brother. We need you to be a father who can claim for himself the authority of true compassion. The idea of being like the old man who had nothing to lose because he had lost all, and only to give, overwhelmed me with fear. I still feel the desire to remain the son and never to grow old.
J. Sterling
That anyone could father a child, but a real man chooses to be a dad.
Jeff Koons
I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.
Jonathan Safran Foer
A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible again.' It was the perfect thing to write, because that was exactly how it felt. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representative or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.
Joni Eareckson Tada
There is nothing that moves a loving father’s soul quite like his child’s cry.
Josh Hatcher
Remember the end goal You are trying to make a full grown human capable of surviving in the wild on their own. You aren't going to keep them forever. You can't make them live your life for you. You can't coddle them and do everything for them. You are preparing them to leave you. Don't lose sight of that!
Justin Ricklefs
The power of a dad in a child’s life is unmatched.
Karamo Brown
Fatherhood is an honor, and men should be strong enough to step up to the plate.
Karl Ove Knausgård
I am alive, I have my own children and with them I have tried to achieve only one aim: that they shouldn’t be afraid of their father. They aren’t. I know that.When I enter a room, they don’t cringe, they don't look down at the floor, they don’t dart off as soon as they glimpse an opportunity, no, if they look at me, it is not a look of indifference, and if there is anyone I am happy to be ignored by it is them. If there is anyone I am happy to be taken for granted by, it is them. And should they have completely forgotten I was there when they turn forty themselves, I will thank them and take a bow and accept the bouquets.
Ken Norton
Of all the titles that I've been privileged to have, the title of 'dad' has always been the best.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Fatherhood is sacred.
Lee Westwood
The satisfaction you get when you finally beat your dad is amazing, that rush of adrenaline.
Leo Buscaglia
If there is any immortality to be had among us human beings, it is certainly only in the love that we leave behind. Fathers like mine don’t ever die.
Liam Neeson
It’s an ongoing joy being a dad.
Lisa Rogers
A man’s worth is measured by how he parents his children. What he gives them, what he keeps away from them, the lessons he teaches and the lessons he allows them to learn on their own.
Louis C.K.
Be a dad. Don’t be "Mom’s Assistant".... Be a man.... Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can’t dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on. Spend time with your kids.... It won’t take away your manhood, it will give it to you.
Marcus Jacob Goldman
Some dads liken the impending birth of a child to the beginning of a great journey.
Martin Luther
Now you tell me, when a father goes ahead and washes diapers or performs some other mean task for his child, and someone ridicules him as an effeminate fool, though that father is acting in the spirit just described and in Christian faith, my dear fellow you tell me, which of the two is most keenly ridiculing the other? God, with all his angels and creatures, is smiling, not because that father is washing diapers, but because he is doing so in Christian faith. Those who sneer at him and see only the task but not the faith are ridiculing God with all his creatures, as the biggest fool on earth. Indeed, they are only ridiculing themselves; with all their cleverness they are nothing but devil’s fools.
Matthew McConaughey
Never is a man more of a man than when he is the father of a newborn.
Mike Myers
Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.
Pam Brown
Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, storytellers, and singers of song.
Paul L. Lewis
Fatherhood is a marathon, not a sprint.
Pope John XXIII
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
Prevost Abbe
The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.
Publilius Syrus
An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
Rob Kozak
What makes a good father? A good father sets an example that his children want to follow. A good father provides for the needs of his children—both material and non-material. A good father demonstrates his love in both words and actions. A good father provides guidance in a positive fashion.
Rod Stewart
I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.
Sunday Adelaja
Fatherhood is a man's main goal and appointed purpose in life.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Anyone can make a baby, but it takes a man to be a father.
Roland Warren
Good fathers do three things: they provide, they nurture and they guide.
Roy Lessin
The imprint of a father remains forever on the life of the child.
Ruth E. Renkel
Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
Tony Parsons
I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me.
Unknown
A father is neither an anchor to hold us back nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.
A dad is someone who wants to catch you when you fall. Instead he picks you up, brushes you off and lets you try again.
