Quotes about father
father partners
My father told me, never have partners. Howard Hughes
father injustice sin
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. Horace
father sunshine sky
I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.
father parent caverns
Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.
father vegetables people
[My father] didn't make much money, and I tell a lot of people, you know, I was a vegetarian before people knew what a vegetarian was. That's all I ate was vegetables. Hank Aaron
father magazines time-magazine
I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time. Gore Vidal
father two america
Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word "democracy."
father advice secret
Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, "I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any." We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
father giving daddy
Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us that the totalitarian society is grounded upon the concept of God the father. One paternal god, one paternal leader. Authority is absolute.
father class people
When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my father was in Roosevelt's Cabinet, this is not the class that produces writers or reflective people.
father meant ready son telling
He said, 'Joe, you're ready to manage. Go,' ... That meant a lot to me, because it was like a father telling his son he was ready for the world. Joe Girardi
father meant ready son telling
He said, 'Joe, you're ready to manage. Go,' ... That meant a lot to me, because it was like a father telling his son he was ready for the world.
father feels pay
He's an old-fashioned, traditional father and he is going to pay for everything he feels responsible for.
father men maturity
When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him. Friedrich Nietzsche
father son having-a-son
Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.
father upset-stomach joy
Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.
father writing accounts
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately George Bernard Shaw
father skins fool
Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.
father drank
I work as my father drank.
father victory losing
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. Galeazzo Ciano
father heart son
There is a power in the soul, quite separate from the intellect, which sweeps away or recognizes the marvelous, by which God is felt. Faith stands serenely far above the reach of the atheism of science. It does not rest on the wonderful, but on the eternal wisdom and goodness of God. The revelation of the Son was to proclaim a Father, not a mystery. No science can sweep away the everlasting love which the heart feels, and which the intellect does not even pretend to judge or recognize. Frederick William Robertson
father heart sacrifice
He in whose heart the law was, and who alone of all mankind was content to do it, His sacrifice alone can be the sacrifice all-sufficient in the Father's sight as the proper sacrifice of humanity; He who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, He alone can give the Spirit which enables us to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. He is the only High-Priest of the universe.
father heart church
The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts. Franz Kafka
father self parent
Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant. Eric Clapton
father eye son
'My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes.
father mean son
I am convinced, that when a man tells a woman he loves her, he only means that he desires her; and that the only total love in this world is that of a father for his son. Enzo Ferrari
father school kids
In school, kids never really looked at me a different way because I think it was a different generation; they didnt really know who my father was. Enrique Iglesias
father who-i-am proud
I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.
father son giving
It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance. George Eliot
father heart swimming
I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him. Gary Oldman
father age firsts
This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
father names ice
In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.
father years ice
Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice.