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  • Walk a little slower, Dad Cos I am only small. I'm following in your footsteps, And I don't want to fall. Someday when I'm all grown up. You're what I want to be; Then I will have a little child, Who'll want to follow me. And I would want to lead just right, And know that I was true; So, walk a little slower, Dad, For I must follow you. A very very very Happy Birthday Dad

    Children   Dad   Fall  
  • Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.

  • There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotsky and father Blum and father Franco is just commencing now and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing. England is the only country now that has not got one and so they are more cheerful there than anywhere. It is a long time now that they have not had any fathering and so their cheerfulness is increasing.

  • Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.

    Father   Men   Daddy  
    "Fathers and Sons" by Frank Pittman, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1993.
  • Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its own speculations, it enforces these purely human outgrowths of overheated imagination on the ignorant masses, and calls them "revelation." As the dogmas of every religion and sect often differ radically, they cannot be true. And if untrue, what are they?

    H.P. Blavatsky (2014). “Isis Unveiled”, p.780, Lulu Press, Inc
  • My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

    Funny   Fathers Day   Dad  
  • To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

    Writing   Army   America  
  • My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

  • 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.

    Children   Dad   Father  
    "Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity". Book by Frank Pittman, www.today.com. 1993.
  • 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 (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation
  • A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.

  • With a title like this-There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat with a Stick-is there really a whole lot left to say? With cunning and quintessential stealth, with artful restraint, with whats fathering and foxy and filled with intelligence and wit, Michael Teig goes about making what seems to be invisible and unspeakable, the most palpable and important matter in the world.

  • You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

    Robert Frost, Elaine Barry (1973). “Robert Frost on writing”, Rutgers Univ Pr
  • Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

    "Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity". Book by Frank Pittman, www.today.com. 1993.
  • A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the childs becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.

  • It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

    "A Small Journal" by Anne Sexton, 1974.
  • One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

    George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.168
  • The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

  • My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

  • In a world often marked by selfishness, a large family is a school of solidarity and sharing; and this attitude is to the benefit of society as a whole.... I always thank the Lord in seeing mothers and fathers of large families, together with their children, committed to the life of the Church and of society.

  • It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

  • Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

    Funny   Fathers Day   Dad  
  • Experience of the phenomenal capacity of our birthing body can give us an enduring sense of our own power as women. Birth is the beginning of life; the beginning of mothering, and of fathering. We all deserve a good beginning.

    Giving   Body   Birth  
  • When these parenting years have passed, something precious will have flickered and gone out of my life. Thus, I am resolved to enjoy every day that remains in this fathering era.

    Father   Years   Eras  
  • 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.

    Funny   Fathers Day   Dad  
  • If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just needs to be there.

    Running   Father   Needs  
    "Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity". Book by Frank Pittman (Chapter 6), 1993.
  • Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

  • It was my father who taught me to value myself.

  • Becoming Father the Nurturer rather than just Father the Provider enables a man to fully feel and express his humanity and his masculinity. Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.

    Father   Men   Humanity  
  • The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.

    "Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity". Book by Frank Pittman, www.today.com. 1993.
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