Thoughts on Fatherhood
George H. W. Bush: We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood, and town better than he found it.
Bill Colby: You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who’ve never had any.
Robert Fulghum: Don’t worry that the children never listen to you, worry that they are always watching you.
Thomas Bray: Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes: Let your children go if you want to keep them.
Carl Gustav Jung: Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Tom Cruise: I’m a father, you know. I always wanted to be a father. Remember when you first held your child? It’s like wow, tremendous sense of responsibility.
Eminem: I’m busy, and I stay busy, but I want to remain in control of things where I can stay in the city and go home at night to my kids. I’m a father before anything else, and anybody who knows me knows that that’s the most important thing to me, that I can be close to my kids and be there.
Nat King Cole: I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and begin to feel giddy. Then it came to me – I was a father.
Author Unknown: A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be.
