Becoming A Father Quotes

It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up.

The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Becoming a father has definitely heightened my discomfort with uncertainty. I want to be able to say, I know what will happen, when, why. But most of the time, we just don't know.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.

My biggest achievement - besides being drafted into the NBA - was becoming a father. Being a father has made me experience things that have contributed to my maturity and personal growth.

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

I never thought I had to forge a family, but it felt the most natural thing that ever happened to me - meeting someone and becoming a father.

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

This is not to say that becoming a father automatically makes you a good father. Fatherhood, like marriage, is a constant struggle against your limitations and self-interests. But the urge to be a perfect father is there, because your child is a perfect gift.

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.

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became a parent. I feel music more intensely. I think of my political ideas as ideas about how I want to interact with other human beings as opposed to abstract theories about how the world should be.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.