Niya Being a Dad Quotes
Any man can be a father. It really does take someone extra special to be a dad!
Anne Geddes
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
Anonymous
Anyone can be a father but it takes someone special to be a dad.
Anonymous
The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.
Antoine Francois Prevost
Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.
Aristotle
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand Russell
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap on a rope.
Bill Cosby
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
Billy Graham
Fathers provide not only support but also encouragement.
Catherine Pulsifer
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
Charles Wadsworth
Being a father is about adaptation and about making the most of the opportunities that are given to you.
Colin Adams
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Confucius
The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.
Dan Pearce
Being a father truly is a blessing and a role not to be taken for granted.
Derek Polen
If you take being a father seriously, you’ll know that you’re not big enough for the job, not by yourself. Being a father will put you on your knees if nothing else ever did.
Elisabeth Elliot
A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us.
Émile Gaboriau
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Enid Bagnold
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Euripides
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
Frank A. Clark
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.
Frank Pittman
The guys who fear becoming fathers don’t understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the men.
Frank Pittman
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
George Herbert
He was a father. That’s what a father does. Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime.
George Saunders
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.
Jack Handey
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Johann Schiller
Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
Jon Stewart
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
Kent Nerburn
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
Lydia M. Child
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
Martin Mull
As fathers, we understand that we have the opportunity to image forth God’s love to our family.
Matt Click
Being a father means you have to think fast on your feet. You must be judicious, wise, brave, tender, and willing to put on a frilly hat and sit down to a pretend tea party.
Matthew Buckley
Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.
Mike Myers
More specifically being a dad is a diverse responsibility, and it is also defined by providing support to your partner in the glorious journey of parenthood.
Natalie L S West
Fatherly love is the act of giving your life for the sake of someone else’s needs.
Nate Dallas
Fatherhood is a lifetime responsibility with its challenges, sweetness and bitterness.
Oluwakemi Ola-Ojo
Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventures, story-tellers, and singers of songs.
Pam Brown
There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
Peter De Vries
A successful father is not more successful than his children.
Raheel Farooq
A child looks up at the stars and wonders. Great fathers put a child on his shoulders and helps them to grab a star.
Reed Markham
Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow.
Reed Markham
The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.
Reed Markham
Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum
A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?
Stephen Colbert
Becoming a dad is one thing being a dad is many things.
Steve Chapman
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore Hesburgh
Becoming a good father is not about learning five practical handy techniques that can be pulled out of the kitbag whenever they’re needed. It’s a mind game. It’s about having a set of attitudes and ideas that shape what you do in the thousands of different situations you find yourself in as a dad.
Tony Payne
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.
Walter M. Schirra, Sr.
Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough.
Wilhelm Busch
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
William Shakespeare
