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“Do you suppose, gentlemen, that our children as they grow up and begin to reason can avoid such questions? No, they cannot, and we will not impose on them an impossible restriction. The sight of an...”
“Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into him...”
“All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.”
“No man wants his daughter to be the kind of girl whom he liked in high school.”
“I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call of my first big story with a yellow border around it was more powerful than the call of fatherhood.”
“We were immortal, did you know that? Did you feel it like me? We had the world at our feet and we were going to live forever. Then came life growing inside you and I became mortal.”
“Be faithful to the unknown, plan for it by expecting it rather than waiting for it to knock you down. I believe your husband will take care of you, for he is a hardworking sensible man, but Jane, I...”
“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 be...”
“The greatest investment you can do in your life is in gaining time.”
“Sure, and fatherhood is super important too. I'm not trying to make this a women-only club by any means. Just that even men rarely view their role in child rearing as the most important thing they ...”
“Much of life, fatherhood included, is the story of knowledge acquired too late: if only Id known then what I know now, how much smarter, abler, stronger, I would have been. But nothing really prepa...”
“A father is as much a verb as a mother.”
“...having a child is like casting off your own childhood forever. It's as if it's only then that you really grasp what it means to be a man. You're scared too that all your weaknesses will be laid ...”
“I abandoned her. It's the one capital crime of fatherhood. Mothers can fail a thousand different ways. A father's only job is: do not abandon this child.”
“A father is a man who fails every day.”
“With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before”
“Many men have children, but not many children have 'Fathers'. Age releases to you reproductive skills. Fatherhood requires LEADERSHIP skills”
“Real Fathers are men of integrity & honour. Their word is their bond.”
“Real Fathers are Solution Providers and not a part of the problem to be solved.”
“Real Fathers make a positive impact on their generation, and so give the next generation the advantage of a better nation to live in”
