Fatherhood is not a
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
Fatherhood
To a father growing
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. Euripides
To be a successful
To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years. Ernest Hemingway
A father is always
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. Enid Bagnold
I love every minute
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
The events of childhood
The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year. Eleanor Farjeon
I am obsessive, also
I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness. Edna O’Brien
It is not flesh
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. Friedrich Schiller
All those tough guys
All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don’t know how to be a man with a woman, only abrute or a boy, who fill up the divorce courts; all those corporate raiders and rain-forest burners and war starters who want more in hopes … Read more
My childhood here… was
My childhood here… was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn. Frank McCourt