Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes

I've changed a lot because I am a father.

Fatherhood is great.

I was just surprised when my wife told me we were having a baby. I was like, Wow, that's awesome. You're going to make a great single mom.

Had my first son this morning... well, actually, my wife had him. I just caught him. Wo. Heart expanding way faster than my brain...

I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to get through four years of college. I was five years away from 40 before I had a family, and I had never been around kids much at all. All of a sudden, I was around three boys all the time.

If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.

Being a father is a surprise for me every day.

Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.

I'm the father of four daughters.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Fatherhood is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Now, to be a father, that changes everything.

I didn't know how to be a father.

Jim Swan was my father, but Reg Barnes was my dad.

I think you have to be a father to understand those feelings… that happiness of being a father.

Becoming a father is incredible. There is no explanation for the feeling.

I am a father. I have children.

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

I don't know my biological father. That could have had a huge impact on my life had it not been for the fact that my dad married my mom when I was one and raised me as his own.

People say having kids is life changing, well that doesn't necessarily mean a good thing, does it? I could take one of my legs off. That would change my life.

I love exploring the relationship between fathers and daughters. I think that's a special thing, especially with daughters who are dealing with being adults. That's fascinating to me. I've had a lot of very interesting parenting techniques that I've employed with my own daughter that have worked really well, so far.

No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

I think I'm playing grown up because I have kids now. But I don't feel grown up yet.