Stephen Colbert Quotes

The mother may be doing ninety percent of the disciplining, but the father still must have a full-time acceptance of all the children. He never must say, "Get these kids out of here; I'm trying to watch TV." If he ever does start saying this, he is liable to see one of his kids on the six o'clock news.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.

The message was that... fathers can go ahead and have children, but they don't have to raise the children.

My definition of a father is someone who empowers their children.

I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.

Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.

I didn't raise my kids with the fear of God.

I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them.

I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

I'm the father of four daughters.

A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect.

A man's family sets him apart from all other living creatures.... Only man stands with his children from first to last, from birth to death, and to the grave.

A capable mother keeps her young people employed and thus out of mischief. She demands from them co-operative helpfulness. She maintains Shelter. She distributes praise and blame. She keeps order. She does not pretend to practice "democracy", the children do not elect their teachers nor determine the methods of family government. Any mother who knows her business is in her home an absolute domestic dictator. It is she who decides what the children shall eat and wear, when they shall get up or go to bed, and go to school, and come home, &c. Her reign extends however, only over the young and her sole object is to fit them to take proper care of themselves later and to make their own way in life

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, … family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation.

A boy needs a male figure, and the girls do, too. Somebody to discipline them and make them be a man.

I'm a very hands-on father. I like being a hands-on father. I am probably more like one of my kids in my family, but the dominating kid.

It means everything to be a father. I had a father growing up, so I wanted my kids to have a father as well.

I think I would make a good father. I'd be a disciplinarian.

I think some men like to be hands-on dads. It's up to individuals. We did it the way that suited us.

I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

My children are now adults and just kind of guide them while they allow you to have input in their lives without controlling them the way you did when they were toddlers. These are good steps to use for fathers at each step of their children's lives.

A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance.

And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.