Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.
Being a dad is more important than football.
Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.
Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.
So my reaction to hearing this corny-ass, horrible song ["With Arms Wide Open" by Creed] is violent, uncontrollable, sustained weeping.
Fatherhood makes you cute. Women find bumbling fathers cute and attractive.
To recover the fatherhood idea, we must fashion a new cultural story of fatherhood. The moral of today's story is that fatherhoodis superfluous. The moral of the new story must be that fatherhood is essential.
There's nothing more life-changing than fatherhood.
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently its the most difficult thing in the world.
I'm about to turn 48, and I think that the closer I get to 50, the more I might be interested in fatherhood. But honestly, I'm not grown up yet myself.
Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity.
Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.
Fatherhood didnt change me in the beginning very much.
That really is the best part of being a dad. You remember what's important in life.
At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.
I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!
With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught me patience. They've also taught me that I don't need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme.
Of course there were areas of safety; nothing could get at me if I curled up on my father's lap, holding his ear with one thumb tucked into it... All about him was safe.
The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything.
The brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God; and to deny the one is no less infidel than to deny the other.
Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe.
Fatherhood isn't always a planned thing, but when it happens you just do it. It's very natural and in that sense it's not really difficult.
I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.
Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying.
