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“I'm still divided in my principles and what I think is right and what I'm actually able to do, whether talking about writing or being a citizen or being a husband or being a father. And I'm trying to get better.”

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Author:John Edgar Wideman

“It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.”

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Author:Alan King

“I love to have fun. I do my own shopping. I do my own yardwork. I like to garden. I like to fish. I like to golf. I'm an outdoorsman. I like to cook. But when I hit the football stadium, I click the switch, because I know I'm there for a job. I get in a whole different mindset when I enter the stadium. But once I leave I'm back to being a father, husband, a friend.”

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Author:Vince Wilfork

“Water has always been a large part of my life, so for me now, being a father with another child on the way, I'm just teaching some of the small things I've been able to learn - and passing that onto the younger generation. Small things like turning your faucet off when you brush your teeth, not taking a 30-minute shower when you really don't need to. So I want to teach the younger generation to spread the message and make a difference. I'm almost more excited to do this than I was to swim.”

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Author:Michael Phelps

“If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.”

“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”

“We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.”

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Author:Matthew Modine

“Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.”

Source: Mama Day: A Novel

“Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.”

Source: 2500 jokes to start 'em laughing

“The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.”

Source: Levana: or, The doctrine of education

“Being a father has fulfilled me in parts of my life that sustain me. It gives me a comfort and patience. All actors have this hole inside that they're trying to fill by performing. I'm anxious to keep creating, but I'm not so desperate any more because I have the love and support of my kids and wife.”

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Author:John C. Reilly

“Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.”

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Author:Kid Rock

“Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.”

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Author:Martin Scorsese

“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”

“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

“Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.”

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Author:Jon Stewart

“I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.”

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Author:Steven Tyler

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”

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Author:Jim Valvano

“In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you're faced with that situation. I know that my father was, with me. I understand why he had to be distant, because to rip yourself away, time after time, is almost more devastating.”

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Author:Rufus Wainwright

“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.”

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Author:Homer

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

“..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and man’s only recourse thereafter was to water and tend it; that propagation was a fiction; consequently, society was a fiction too; that fathers and teachers, by virtue of being fathers and teachers, were guilty of a grievous sin.”

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Author:Yukio Mishima

“My daughter," I said blankly. "I see. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought it took a man, as well as a woman, to make a child. Is this infant's father to be a crab, or a seagull maybe? Or were you planning to shipwreck some likely sailor on my doorstep, so I can make convenient use of him?”

Source: Child of the Prophecy: Book Three of the Sevenwaters Trilogy

“The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.”

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Book:Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son

Source: Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son

“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.”

“Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe”

“It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.”

“To have committed every crime but that of being a father.”

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Book:The Trouble with Being Born

Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.”

“There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.”

“The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child-raising is not the child but the parent.”

“There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.”

Source: Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery

“There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.”

“When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.”

“It is much easier to become a father than to be one.”

“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.”

“You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.”

“Being a father is the most important role I will ever play and if I don't do this well, no other thing I do really matters.”

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Author:Michael Josephson

“To her, the name of father was another name for love.”

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

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Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Being a father is certainly a task. But the best one that I could ever ask for. Being home, being with the family, that's what it's about...”

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Author:Chris Hemsworth

“You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway.”

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Author:Robert Breault

“Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.”

“A man's worth is measured by how he parents his children. What he gives them, what he keeps away from them, the lessons he teaches and the lessons he allows them to learn on their own.”

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Author:Lisa Rogers

“Be there...care...and put your children first in your life. When you are given the awesome responsibility of being a father, that is the most important responsibility you can have. God wants us to have a loving relationship with our kids and help them grow...just like God's relationship with us.”

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Author:John Harbaugh

“Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.”

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Author:Aristotle

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