paternal role Quotes

I'm basically like a dad; I've always been a dad.

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

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.

It's not that we have too much mother, but too little father. We can't forgive our mothers for taking the place of our fathers until we are ready to see that the point of a man's life is to be a father and a mentor, and we can't do that because we don't know how we would be a father or a mentor when we never had one.

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

I want to be the best parent I can be. I want to be the best husband I can be

Our father has an even more important function than modeling manhood for us. He is also the authority to let us relax the requirements of the masculine model: if our father accepts us, then that declares us masculine enough to join the company of men. We, in effect, have our diploma in masculinity and can go on to develop other skills.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

When it comes to little girls, God the father has nothing on father, the god. It's an awesome responsibility.

Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role.

The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.

Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business.

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

That is the really great thing about being an adult male, once you get married and have children the whole decision-making process is taken out of your hands, and I for one am extremely grateful.

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

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

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

Fathers, yours is an eternal calling from which you are never released. Callings in the Church, as important as they are, by their very nature are only for a period of time, and then an appropriate release takes place. But a father's calling is eternal, and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

A father has to do everything in his power to keep a tight ship, even though he knows the crew would like to send him away in a dinghy.

I wanted to be a father, and I wanted to be involved in my children's athletics, school stuff like that.

My father has always been a big influence in my life.