Fatherly Role Quotes

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

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

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

On this special Fathers Day, we'd like to wish all of you a very Happy Birthday.

My father didn't push me.

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.'

Not only do our wives need support, but our children need our deep involvement in their lives. If this period [the early years] ofprimitive needs and primitive caretaking passes without us, it is lost forever. We can be involved in other ways, but never again on this profoundly intimate level.

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

Fathers should speak with their children.

Being a father is certainly a task. But the best one that I could ever ask for. Being home, being with the family, that's what it's about...

He will change diapers, of course he will. He is going to be a very hands-on father.

I worry about that every single day: Am I being a good father?

Fathers are very, very important in building the foundations and self-esteem of children. For me, the way that I was raised, consideration, courtesy and manners are really key and I think the father plays a big role in setting an example to children in how to behave out in the world and how to treat people. It's a little bit different when it comes from the dad rather than the mum somehow.

The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those years of infancy and puberty, adolescence and young adulthood. That's when she needs you at her side.

The fatherhood thing is easy - when you're there.

Becoming a father is the biggest change you go through in life - at least that I've gone through in life.

I'm a hopeless father. I don't know why. I don't think I was supposed to be a father.

Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.

A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

It is my duty to be a father to my kids.

I want to be a superhero dad to where my kid feel like everything I do is nothing wrong.

There are a lot of things my mother taught me and helped me and disciplined me and made sure I stayed on the right track. And there are a ton of things that only my father could have taught me.

With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least.

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?

Be the best father you can be to your children. Because nothing is more important.