Oscar Hammerstein Quotes

I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.

I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me.

It's important to have masculine energy around your child.

There are good artists that have children. Of course there are. They are called men.

I see my husband and the way he is with his daughters, responsive and alive and sensitive in ways my father would have liked to be. My father would have loved to be a man like that, and he surrounded himself with men like that, but he couldn't be.

My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience.

My relationship with my daughter is gonna affect her relationship with men for the rest of her life... Sometimes I'm walking with my daughter. I'm pushing her in the stroller, and sometimes I just pick her up and stare at her, and I realize, my only job in life is to keep her off the pole.

Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.

You don't realize how easy one is until you have two. Now I'm really a mom. Oh, I am a mom now! This is for serious — I am responsible for two people now.

Father' is such an arbitary word. Douche bag, on the other hand.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

I had a wonderful father, and I couldn't bear that television virtually ignored black fathers.

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

I'm the father of two boys and two girls, so I'm more an emotional wreck than a mushball.

I got a feeling that when I have kids, I'm going to have a little girl, and she's going to be completely sensible.

When my daughter was born, I was a stay-at-home dad for the first two years.

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'

In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all.

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

When I first knew I was having children, I thought I wanted boys, but then I thought I'd be better with girls. I'm quite sensitive, and you get more cuddles with girls. And they like their dads.

All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.