Barack Obama Quotes

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...

Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.

We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

...Being a father is the most exciting, amazing thing that ever happened to me.

Of all the things I have been privileged to do and experience in life, the highest honor has been fatherhood. Wishing Fathers everywhere a wonderful day.

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.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

My dad loves babies. He's really good with them and is a big family man.

Being a father is a surprise for me every day.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

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

I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.

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

I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.

Becoming a father is the natural progression and the next stage after marriage. So the thought of becoming a father is itself an incredible feeling!

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

I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time.... I was born to be a dad.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

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

There's nothing more life-changing than fatherhood.

[Fatherhood] is everything.... The hardest job in the world, the most rewarding job in the world.... We put in long days. And to go home and have dinner with your kids, and have to discipline one of them who's out of line, and still have the energy for that is.... I can't explain the fulfillment of that, but it is everything.

I do want children. I study dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I ever did and my brother and my sister.