James Dobson Quotes

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

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

I'm blessed with eight children - though I'm talking about eight adults now.

Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.

I like being a mother.

I think I'm lucky that I had kids as spread out as much as I did, 'cause my son, my oldest, was born when I was 21. And my youngest is 15 now. He was born when I was 40, you know?

My father is an amazing person.

One minute, you're dropping your teenage son off to a festival, and the next, you're changing a nappy, but I love the versatility and challenge of being a father.

... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.

There are so many things I'd like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life.

As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.

Having kids had a big effect on me, but nothing more than when they started to get older- that really made me realize how fleeting each moment is.

You give up a lot when you enter the years of parenting. It's a sacrifice.

I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.

I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each kid an average of twenty-two minutes a week, which I found almost unbelievable. Mine are in my hip pocket all the time. And I like it that way.

Tory a father isn’t supposed to fear his fourteen-year-old daughter. That being sad, you terrify me.

I think I'm a father, but a father of three kids! :)

Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted.

Bright clasp of her whole hand around my finger My daughter as we walk together now. All my life I'll feel a ring invisibly Circle this bone with shining When she is grown.

contrary to what many believed, my father was kind and tenderhearted, especially towards his family. His forbidding sternness seemed to melt into love, kindness, and easy familiarity when he was with us. Especially with me, his acknowledged successor to the throne, he would play lightheartedly. When we were alone together, he would sing me little songs; I don't remember his ever doing this in front of others, but when only the two of us were there, he would often sing to me.

In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

Dad literally carried me around the world with him through the early years of my life.

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

Our fathers never leave us. Ever.