Secular Quotes

Secular Quotes of Inspiration for Fatherhood

No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.
– Lafcadio Hearn

A Father’s Love
A father is respected because he gives his children leadership… appreciated because he gives his children care… valued because he gives his children time… loved because he gives his children the one thing they treasure most – himself.
– unknown

I just owe almost everything to my father [and] it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
– Margaret Thatcher

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
– Charles Wadsworth

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
– George Herbert

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
– Sigmund Freud

Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad.
– Anne Geddes 

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.
– Jean Paul Richter

No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.
– Lafcadio Hearn

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.
– Pam Brown