Father Quotes
Thich Nhat Hanh
The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite.
2826N. Scott Momaday
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
4206 Eric Samuel Timm
We need to get to the heart of each heart issue - and we can’t do it. Only the Maker can. The world needs #Jesus.
1856 Robert G. Ingersoll
Call me infidel, call me atheist, call me what you will, I intend so to treat my children, that they can come to my grave and truthfully say: 'He who sleeps here never gave us a moment of pain. From his lips, now dust, never came to us an unkind word.
3022 Aoboshi Kimama
I'm going to be a person who writes stories.
I never told mom and dad how much I loved them.
I wanna be someone who can tell a lot of people how much I love them.
1735 Celia Mcmahon
I see my father. I see him gone away. My world is a little bit colder.
3735 Jonathan Safran Foer
He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
3170 Jim Valvano
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
2853 Jodi Picoult
When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires
1328 Alison Espach
All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.
2857 C.S. Lewis
An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]
4515 Tennessee Williams
Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
4655 Nina LaCour
He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.
3684 Cormac McCarthy
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
2707 Santosh Kalwar
Your father is the only God. You can also become god but you must follow a simple rule and let that rule be made up of love.
1211 Donald Miller
Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake.
4834 Chuck Palahniuk
If you're male, and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career.
3310 Ana Monnar
I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.
3329 Péter Esterházy
Mi a különbség édesapám és az Isten közt? A különbség jól látható: Isten mindenütt ott van, ezzel szemben édesapám is mindenütt ott van, csak itt nincs.
4592 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The world is full of unrequited love,' I said finally.
'You and Patrick having problems?' Dad said, reaching around to get the butter out of the fridge.
'No, I was just wondering what you would say if I was a lesbian.'
'Come again?' said Lester. 'I'm having a hard time following this conversation.
2161 Elijah Noble El
That night, when the creature sleeps, when he sleeps, the mother escapes into her daughters’ room. She tells her daughter that the creature’s afraid of her having too much love, too much heart. She takes a tube of lipstick and drags it across her finger like a knife, marking it across her daughter’s cheeks, red, blood, war paint.
3657 Amit Kalantri
No matter how knowledgeable you are, respect your parents for their experience and your children for their curiosity.
4562 Leo Tolstoy
Without the support from religion-remember, we talked about it-no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.
4846 Onyi Anyado
For me, it’s not just about blessing my generation, I've done that already, I also have to be a father to the fatherless.
3684 Carew Papritz
Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.
3961 Miya Yamanouchi
You don't need to be primary caregiver of your children to be of primary influence in their lives. What you do for them behind the scenes in your own unique way is what makes the true difference in the long run.
3480 P.A. Speers
If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will." Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath
4476 Kathy Hepinstall
Every father wants a daughter to meet the right God, and the right man. Perhaps her father had failed with both.
4593 Elizabeth George
No role brings greater joy or blessing than being a parent.
4957 Derek Landy
Personally, I think knees should be kept for the eight or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice surprise, you know? 'Oh, my darling, you have knees! I never would have thought!
4952 Derek Landy
Personally, I thin knees should be kept for the eight or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice surprise, you know? 'Oh, my darling, you have knees! I never would have thought!
4638 Veronica Roth
People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.
2297 Kristin Cashore
Spelling bees? Spelling bees do not scare me. I competed in the National Spelling Bee twice, thank you very much. My dad competed in the National Spelling Bee. My aunt competed in the National Spelling Bee. My uncle WON the National Spelling Bee. If I can't spell it, I know someone who can. SO JUST BRING IT ON, YOU BASTARDS!!
3679 André Gide
There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is.
2050 Enock Maregesi
Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere alikuwa baba kwa familia yake. Kwa Tanzania alikuwa mlezi; wa ndoto ya haki, amani, uzalendo, ujamaa, na uhuru.
1144 Leonard J. Vander Zee
Torrance uses the analogy of an embrace. When we hug someone, there is a double movement. We open our arms and in so doing give ourselves to the beloved. But in the embrace we also draw that person close to us...One hand, Christ, opens the relationship, the other hand, the Holy Spirit draws us into that relationship with the Father.
4937 Harlan Coben
I blinked and the images were gone. But I remembered how the laugh and the howl and the splash would ripple and echo in the stillness of our lake, and I wondered if ripples and echoes like those ever fully die away, if somewhere in the woods my father's joyful yelps still bounced quietly off the trees. Silly thought, but there you go.
2145 Norma Fox Mazer
That night, stargazing on the deck with Dad, eyes on the sky, he pointed out Orion, Betelgeuse. "It's an art to read the stars, baby."
I never wanted to leave his side-my sure song for so long. Now? His eyes are stone changed. Just looking at them hurts my heart.
2025 Jim George
A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!
1068 Jim George
Our wives, our families, and our churches need godly men who have discernment-discernment to deal with life and life-issues on a spiritual level.
3552 Jim George
The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us.
4103 Jim George
Every major accomplishment in a man's life requires a major level of commitment.
2516 Jim George
A man after God's own heart is...
a man who yearns to please God,
a man who desires to grow spiritually,
a man who had a heart that obeys.
3185 Jim George
I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently.
3911 Jim George
Our physical body knows it cannot function without physical water. So, too, our spiritual life should realize that it can't function without the "living water" of Gods Word.
1487 T.P. Louise
Father never approved of my toys
Saw them as child's playthings
I was a child
They were my world
I ruled there
And he stepped on them
Destroying them
And in turn
Destroyed me
I should have been left to play
Now I must step on everything
3091 David Bellavia
Maybe it's time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I'm not sure how.
3057 Amit Kalantri
To your parents you are still that innocent baby, and sometimes even you will need your father's hand and your mother's lap.
4579 John Burnside
He lied all the time even when there was no need to lie [...] He needed a _history_, a sense of self. [Burnside on his father, p. 22]
2897 A.J. Jacobs
The strange fact that out of millions of people in the world, your mother and father met and decided to get married to each other. And out of the millions of sperm, that the one with your genes was the one that made it to the egg and fertilised the egg. I'll never forget it.
4422 Azelene Williams
The children we bring into the world are small replicas of ourselves and our husbands; the pride and joy of grandfathers and grandmothers. We dream of being mothers, and for most of us that dreams are realised naturally. For this is the Miracle of Life.
4468 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
But in the end I'd marry her to the one she herself loved. To a father, the man his daughter falls in love with herself always seems the worst. That's how it is.
1242 Glenn Beck
You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.
3437 Raquel Cepeda
I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still alive. I pretended not to notice.
4953 G.A. Aiken
The bastard was effectively stuck until he and Morfyd helped him. Fearghus smiled a little at his father’s suffering and the female who caused it.
I do love that woman.
2779 Judith Merkle Riley
Why the Romans, Father?" I asked him one afternoon.
"Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice where all faith is dead," he answered.
2489 Robert G. Ingersoll
The sciences are not sectarian. People do not persecute each other on account of disagreements in mathematics. Families are not divided about botany, and astronomy does not even tend to make a man hate his father and mother. It is what people do not know, that they persecute each other about. Science will bring, not a sword, but peace.
3211 Rick Riordan
Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's.
3903 Anthony Liccione
I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I was bald.
3325 Thiruvalluvar
She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state
2755 Melina Marchetta
He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.
1473 G.A. Aiken
A whore Ailean may have been, but a loving, caring whore who adored his offspring and mate.
2080 Bob Dylan
..my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understand me. The town he lived in and the town I lived in were not the same.
4948 Tim Relf
It's not like you're becoming a born-again Christian or teetotal or an accountant or something you can stop being after a while. You'll never not be a father now.'
'It feels great, Rob' he said. 'Just great.
3136 Michael Ben Zehabe
Genesis began with the Father losing His family. Revelation ends with Him getting them back. Is there nothing to be learned from this sad cycle? Truly, family is the legitimate theme of holy text.
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4994 Gillian Flynn
My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
1894 Joss Stirling
Xavier, you have given me more grey hairs than all my sons put together.’ Saul frowned, then corrected himself. ‘To be fair, you and Zed. Just try not to add to them tonight.
4057 Todd Boss
I swear
we'd lose our
hearts if
they weren't
with elastic
and butterfly
pin
clasped safely
in.
1266 Anita R. Sneed-Carter
Fathers, your are the head and strength of the family unit. If you are not in place, there is a weakness in the link.
2643 Dejan Stojanovic
You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream.
3035 Rich Mullins
Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids - not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us.
4601 Richelle E. Goodrich
Without you there would be no me.
I am everything reflected in your eyes.
I am everything approved by your smile.
I am everything born of your guidance.
I am me only because of you.
2368 John McGahern
They'd listen silenty, with grave faces: but once they'd turn to each other they'd smile cruelly. He couldn't have it both ways. He'd put himself outside and outside they'd make him stay. Neither brutality nor complaining could force a way in.
1895 Alison Bechdel
Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief that eluded me.
3988 Ashlee Willis
Perhaps someday, when you are a father, Prince, you will understand how empty is your heart if your child is a hollow toy that you can move where you will him to be
3655 Thomm Quackenbush
My main nurturing instinct toward children is mild sadism-picking them up and threatening to drop them-which is why I am a good uncle but would make a poor father.
4154 Jim George
There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children
1430 Carolyn Byers Ruch
I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My father made three important choices that day: He listened to me, he believed me, and he took action. I was one of the fortunate ones-I had a childhood.
1680 Robert G. Ingersoll
But I will tell you what I say to my children: 'Go where you will; commit what crime you may; fall to what depth of degradation you may; you can never commit any crime that will shut my door, my arms, or my heart to you. As long as I live you shall have one sincere friend.
1914 Elizabeth George
The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.
2246 Richard Paul Evans
It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly on terra quaking firma.
4562 David Mitchell
Judith Rey watches the young woman. Once upon a time, I had a baby daughter. I dressed her in frilly frocks, enrolled her for ballet classes, and sent her to horse-riding camp five summers in a row. But look at her. She turned into Lester anyway. She kisses Luisa’s forehead. Luisa frowns, suspiciously, like a teenager. “What?
4530 Margaret Way
I have the solution to all my problems. I have money, position, the running of one of the country’s legendary cattle stations. I can even get the girl I want. I can’t buy her, of course. She’s got money of her own. But I’m pretty sure if I talk to her dad, he’ll give me the green light.
4540 Shahla Khan
Behind every successful man is a woman but few of us realize that behind most successful women is a man too; her father.
3542 Habeeb Akande
Behind every great man is a man greater, his father.
4260 Alison Espach
Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same.
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