Frank Pittman Quotes

Whatever their age, most men have never received true fathering.

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.

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying.

My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.

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.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.

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

I'm the father that Bow Wow never had.

Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have 'evolved' from real people like Sheriff Andy Taylor, Beaver's dad Ward Cleaver and Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable, to cartoon dads like Homer Simpson and Seth MacFarlane's caricatures in 'American Dad!' and 'Family Guy.'

So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers.

Growing up, as a kid, my father was always there.

The truth is that when a man has a child, and it's a girl, and he doesn't change as a man, he's not much of a man.

It is very difficult when you grow up without a father because you don't have a man who can give you direction and discipline.

There's nothing more life-changing than fatherhood.

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.

We have a whole generation of men who don't understand how much they mean to their kids.

I've been a dad since I was nineteen, so I think a lot about fatherhood and the power of that sacrifice in your life.

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

If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.