Fatherhood Quotes - Page 2

That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.

Christ has given us the most glorious interpretation of life's meaning that man has ever had. The fatherhood of God, the fellowship of the Spirit, the sovereignty of righteousness, the law of love, the glory of service, the coming of the Kingdom, the eternal hope- there was never an interpretation of life to compare with that.

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.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

It is impossible to overstate the need for prayer in the fabric of family life.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks

Fatherhood: How God blesses you out of your selfishness and floods your soul with love, all while reminding you how little you know.

Fatherhood changes you completely. If things didn't go my way before, I became withdrawn and didn't want to see or listen to anyone. Now, when I arrive home, I see my son and everything is OK. He's the most important thing to me now.

The power of this experience [fatherhood] can never be explained. It is one of those joyful codings that rumbles in the species far below understanding. When it is experienced it makes you one with all men in a way that fills you with warmth and harmony.

I don't think fatherhood's changed me so much as it's conjured protective instincts I've had all along.

I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever.