“Above all, children need our unconditional love, whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.”
Barack Obama
“Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the created world, placing in doubt the truth about God who is Love and leaving man with only a sense of the master-slave relationship.”
Pope John Paul II
“Until you have a son of your own…
you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son. You will never know the sense of honor that makes a man want to be more than he is and to pass something good and hopeful into the hands of his son. And you will never know the heartbreak of the fathers who are haunted by the personal demons that keep them from being the men they want their sons to be.”
Kent Nerburn
“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.
“Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.”
Clarence Budington Kelland
“Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is “soap-on-a-rope.””
Bill Cosby
“That is the thankless position of the father in the family… the provider for all, and the enemy of all.”
J. August Strindberg
“”Who giveth this woman?” This woman. But she’s not a woman. She’s still a child. And she’s leaving us. What’s it going to be like to come home and not find her? Not to hear her voice calling, “Hi, Pops” as I come in? I suddenly realized what I was doing. I was giving up Kay. Something inside me began to hurt.”
Stanley T. Banks, Father of the Bride
“Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not discipline and teach, fight and mold them until they know all he knows. His goal is to make them better than he is. Being their friend is a distant second to this.”
Victor Devlin
“I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me… I was a father.”
Nat King Cole