Quotes on Fatherhood

1.  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
2. A man's worth is measured by how he parents his children. What he gives them, what he keeps away from them, the lessons he teaches and the lessons he allows them to learn on their own. ~Lisa Rogers
3.  By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. ~Charles Wadsworth
4. A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be. ~Frank A. Clark
5. "It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father."
   ~ Pope John XXIII
6. When one has not had a good father, one must create one."
   ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
7. "The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them."
   ~ Confucius
8. "Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad."
   ~ Unknown
9. "My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got," so said the writer Mark Twain.
10. All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye.