Paternity Quotes

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

I am a father. I have children.

When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time.

Fatherhood is the best thing that ever happened to me.

All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes

I did not become a father because I am fond of children.

There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.

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

I'm glad that's one of the things I chose to do as a man - to be a father to my child.

My husband has a cousin who discovered, in his fifties, that the man he thought was his father was actually not, and that he had not only a father he had never met, but brothers.

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.

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

I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.

I think fatherhood would change anybody when you have your first son. It's been amazing.

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

War is to man what maternity is to a woman

I am Mr. McMahon's son. I always had a feeling that it was me. Now that it's been confirmed I could not be happier!

...Being a father is the most exciting, amazing thing that ever happened to me.

Even in Puritan New England, seventy years ago, female slaves, in ministers' and magistrates' families, bore children, black or yellow, without marriage. No one inquired who their fathers were, and nothing more was thought of it than of the breeding of sheep or swine. We had the facts from those who well remembered them.

Definitely the most important thing in my life is being a father.

In my mind, I was still Chimere's father. I was there when he was born. I saw him when he first came out. I held him. He was my kid.

Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse. Fathers suddenly gained a function, and could do what only women had been able to do for all those millions of years--point at a child and say, "That is my son," "That is my daughter." Patriarchy quickly followed, beginning about five thousand years ago; a very short time in the development of our species, but covering all of recorded history.