IntentionalFathering @FatheringIntent

Quotes and resources for anyone who believes fathering should mean more than procreation. United States Joined February 2017

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IntentionalFathering @IntentFathering

6 years ago

“I love these little people; and it is no slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.” (Charles Dickens)

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7 years ago

“The sight of an unworthy father involuntarily suggests tormenting questions to a young creature, especially when he compares him with the excellent fathers of his companions.” (Dostoevsky)

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7 years ago

“Son, there are times a man has to do things he doesn't like to, in order to protect his family.” (Ralph Moody, Father and I Were Ranchers)

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7 years ago

“Lately all my friends are worried they’re turning into their fathers. I’m worried I’m not.” (Dan Zevin)

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7 years ago

“I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.” (Hedy Lamarr)

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7 years ago

“Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not discipline and teach, fight and mold them until they know all he knows. His goal is to make them better than he is. Being their friend is a distant second to this.” (Victor Devlin)

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7 years ago

“Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.” (John Wilmot)

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7 years ago

“It's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body." (1/2)

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7 years ago

“Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.” (Dan Pearce)

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7 years ago

“The boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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7 years ago

“A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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7 years ago

“I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.” (John Quincy Adams)

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7 years ago

"Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it." (John Adams)