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.
I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever.
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.
Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.
Every dad, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his fatherhood, can learn ways to become an even better dad.
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
I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast.
The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a social role for men.
Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.
I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.
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.
The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.
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 If things didn't go my way before, I became withdrawn and didn't want to see or listen to anyone.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.
It is impossible to overstate the need for prayer in the fabric of family life.
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
I've never outgrown my childhood.