Fatherhood Quotes

Being a dad is the occupation of a lifetime! From feeding to waking up at wee hours of the night to changing diapers to running around the house playing peek-a-boo, being a father can be a round-the-clock racket. All said and done, fatherhood is possibly the best thing that can happen to a man. After all, what could be more thrilling than being recognized as the real life hero by your child? As Queen Victoria once said, “None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of such a Father who has not his equal in this world – so great, so good, so faultless.” Dads are indeed God’s best creation, their importance is matchless, their influence infinite and their presence incomparable. Very few things in life are after all as gratifying as the feeling of holding your child in your arms and seeing your young one growing into a fine adult. Scroll down these wonderful quotes on fatherhood and warm your heart to these emotional adages.

Quotes About Fatherhood

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. - Bill Cosby
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. - Mark Twain
One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is. - Erma Bombeck
A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he is meant to be. - Carol Coats
I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet. - Rodney Dangerfield
A father is a banker provided by nature. - French Proverb
The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get. - Tim Russert
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. - Charles Wadsworth
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right. - Bill Cosby
The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet. - Bill Cosby
A child is a curly dimpled lunatic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. - Phyllis Diller
It is not flesh and blood but the heart, which makes us fathers and sons. - Johann Schiller
A two-year old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it. - Jerry Seinfeld
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
It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. - Sigmund Freud
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. - Henry Ward Beecher
Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow. - Reed Markham
A good father is one of the most unsung, upraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society. - Billy Graham
It is much easier to become a father than to be one. - Kent Nerburn
You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together. - Erika Cosby
Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development. - David Gottesman
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. - 17th century English proverb
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

Being a father is the ultimate joy and these fatherhood quotes reveal what makes fatherhood the most prized relationship of all.

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