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Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch. -- Jon Stewart
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. -- Bill Cosby
It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon. -- Blair Underwood
Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person. -- Naveen Jain
Fatherhood is the most amazing thing that could ever have happened in my life. -- Corey Feldman
Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice. -- Dwyane Wade
Fatherhood is a joy. I feel very lucky to have a family. It gives you a perspective on things. -- David Harewood
The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world. -- Christopher Meloni
Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it. -- Andrea Bocelli
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Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball. -- Derek Fisher
Fatherhood isn't always a planned thing, but when it happens you just do it. It's very natural and in that sense it's not really difficult. -- Kelly Slater
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children. -- Bill Cosby
I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding. -- Christopher Meloni
Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters. -- Ezra Taft Benson
There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy? -- Will Smith
Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on. -- Brad Pitt
Fatherhood is sacred. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Fatherhood didnt change me in the beginning very much. -- Tom Sizemore
Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language. -- Bill Cosby
Fatherhood makes you cute. Women find bumbling fathers cute and attractive. -- Jerry Seinfeld
Fatherhood is asking your son to make up a name rather than tell anybody who he is. -- Bill Cosby
Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction. -- A. Theodore Tuttle
Fatherhood, to me, isn't something you do for awards or acclaim. It's a privilege and a huge responsibility -- Dwyane Wade
Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
Many men have children, but not many children have 'Fathers'. Age releases to you reproductive skills. Fatherhood requires LEADERSHIP skills -- Fela Durotoye
Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood -- Chris Hadfield
Fatherhood has taught me when it's too quiet my kids are usually sinning. God the Father knows the same. Are you praying? -- Mark Hart
Fatherhood is telling your daughter that Michael Jackson loves all his fans, but has special feelings for the ones who eat broccoli. -- Bill Cosby
Fatherhood: How God blesses you out of your selfishness and floods your soul with love, all while reminding you how little you know... -- Mark Hart
The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God. -- Charles Webster Leadbeater
The brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God; and to deny the one is no less infidel than to deny the other. -- Lyman Abbott
We are born to soar. We are children of God. ... The Fatherhood of God offers a deep spiritual cure for the inferiority complex and lays the firm foundation for a solid spiritual self-esteem. -- Robert H. Schuller
Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth; it is a matter of desire, diligence, and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters. -- Ezra Taft Benson
You Can't Plan the Kind of Deep Love That Results in Children. Fatherhood Was Not a Conscious Decision. It Was Part of the Wonderful Ride I Was on. It Was Destiny; Kismet. All the Math Finally Worked. -- Johnny Depp
An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald] -- C. S. Lewis
Fatherhood changes you completely. If things didn't go my way before, I became withdrawn and didn't want to see or listen to anyone. Now, when I arrive home, I see my son and everything is OK. He's the most important thing to me now. -- Lionel Messi
This is not to say that becoming a father automatically makes you a good father. Fatherhood, like marriage, is a constant struggle against your limitations and self-interests. But the urge to be a perfect father is there, because your child is a perfect gift. -- Kent Nerburn
Fatherhood means a great deal to me. I love it. To me, there aint nothing better, because your kids keep it real with you. When you think things are bad, you look at them and they show you how things could be all right, and it's all worth it. -- Martin Lawrence
Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying. -- Jim Gaffigan
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. -- Steve Martin
I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever. -- Guy Ritchie
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. -- Euripides
That really is the best part of being a dad. You remember what's important in life. -- Russell Simmons
The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking. -- Daniel Pearce
Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it. -- Mike Myers
A father is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with snapshots of his kids. -- Michael Forest
All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help. -- Nas
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. -- Bertrand Russell
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be. -- Frank A. Clark
What I love most about fatherhood is the opportunity to be a part of the development process of a new life. -- Seal
Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children. -- William Bennett
Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much. -- Hedy Lamarr
Every dad, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his fatherhood, can learn ways to become an even better dad. -- Jack Baker
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. -- Margaret Mead
My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.' -- Michael Jordan
I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way. -- Elton John
And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently -- Paul Reiser
I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit. -- John le Carre
The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road. -- Angelo Patri
Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started. -- Jeffrey Kluger
I walked into the wrong examination room. I'm bad enough at facial recognition... I saw more that day than I cared to. Fortunately, I didn't recognize her from that angle, whoever it was, and I didn't ask. I'm off to a rocky start on the road to fatherhood, but I got a free view. -- Simon Helberg
I think I'm actually built for fatherhood. I love to have a good time and play, but at the same time I've got a really serious side to me, and I think that's the balance you have to have. Get on your kids' level, but at any point in time, let them know who the parent is. -- Nick Cannon
The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan. -- Garrison Keillor
There's nothing more life-changing than fatherhood. -- Brad Pitt
Universal brotherhood under the fatherhood of God. -- Pandurang Shastri Athavale
No better blessing than the responsibility of fatherhood. -- Stephen Curry
At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly. -- Rod Stewart
I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood. -- Homer
I am very much enjoying the fatherhood phase of my life. -- Anthony Bourdain
Develop the feeling of brotherhood of man and fatherhood of God. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention. -- Margaret Mead
Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me. -- Nicolas Cage
I'm a big fan of fatherhood, and I'm a big fan of my family. -- Jaime Camil
Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven. -- James E. Faust
Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently its the most difficult thing in the world. -- Kelly Slater
Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world. -- Kelly Slater
The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it. -- Steve Farrar
When rappers call each other son it leads me to believe they don't take fatherhood very seriously. -- Dov Davidoff
I don't think fatherhood's changed me so much as it's conjured protective instincts I've had all along. -- Jim Goad
You must sacrifice every thought, very ideology for the good of the nation and for the serenity of our fatherhood. -- Francisco Franco
I love it. I hate that word (fatherhood), but I love being a father; it's changed everything in so many ways. -- Orlando Bloom
I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private! -- Rich Sommer
Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub. -- Irene Dunne
Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God. -- Calvin Coolidge
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is. -- Patti Davis
I've been a dad since I was nineteen, so I think a lot about fatherhood and the power of that sacrifice in your life. -- Jess Walter
Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe. -- Lucy Corin
The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it. -- John Green
Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are! -- Katharine Lee Bates
Of all the things I have been privileged to do and experience in life, the highest honor has been fatherhood. Wishing Fathers everywhere a wonderful day. -- Roy Yamaguchi
In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees". -- Pope John Paul II
I abandoned her. It's the one capital crime of fatherhood. Mothers can fail a thousand different ways. A father's only job is: do not abandon this child. -- Catherynne M. Valente
The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a social role for men. -- David Blankenhorn
I'm about to turn 48, and I think that the closer I get to 50, the more I might be interested in fatherhood. But honestly, I'm not grown up yet myself. -- John Benjamin Hickey
The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in upholding these principles and our enemies are attacking them. -- William Howard Taft
In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways. -- June Jordan
The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything. -- Mona Simpson
Just as a father feels it is all ending and his children are off to start their own families, a new role begins. In midlife, Dad may experience his second "fatherhood" as a grandparent. -- Alvin Francis Poussaint
But for fatherhood advice, try to look your child in the eye.... Get to know their name; that becomes important when you want something. And remember to feed them. That's about all you need. -- Will Ferrell
To recover the fatherhood idea, we must fashion a new cultural story of fatherhood. The moral of today's story is that fatherhoodis superfluous. The moral of the new story must be that fatherhood is essential. -- David Blankenhorn

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