Matt Lauer Quotes

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

I'm a hopeless father. I don't know why. I don't think I was supposed to be a father.

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.

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.

There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside.

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

I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.

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

In every movie and every TV show, the dads are morons. And dads tend to react by doing what dads do best: They check out. They say, 'Ask your mother.'

Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around.

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

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

I'm not saying I'm a family guy, but maybe that's what people see in me: some kind of paternal quality.

I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Fathers, yours is an eternal calling from which you are never released.

All Pro Dad is an organization that started down in Tampa in 1997. And it was just a group of us who felt like we weren't doing as good a job as our fathers did in connecting with kids and being there and being involved in their lives, working and coaching and spending all the time we had to. We just felt badly.

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.'

Boys need fathers, and you can't do that in jail.

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

But being a father is as good as it gets.

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

You think of what might have been different if dad had been around, or how I might have turned out as a person. You just don't know. I might not even be playing cricket.