Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ezra Taft Benson

A father’s duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

Ezra Taft Benson

Meditation on a passage of scripture... led a young boy into a grove of trees to commune with his heavenly Father. That is what opened the heavens in this dispensation

Ezra Taft Benson

Nothing will surprise us more than when we get to heaven and see the Father and realize how well we know Him and how familiar His face is to us.

Ezra Taft Benson

Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.

Ezra Taft Benson

A father's calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.

Ezra Taft Benson

Some men are willing to die for their faith but will not fully live for it. Christ both lived and died for us. By walking in his steps and through his atonement we can gain the greatest gift of all--eternal life--which is that kind of life of the great Eternal One, our Father in heaven.

Evel Knievel

I guess I'm like any other concerned father, except that nobody else's son guns a cycle over 17 pickups without holding on to the handlebars.

Eve Ensler

Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body. It was not a very good relationship. It was the sort of relationship my father had to my body. It was a tyrannical, "you'll do what I tell you" relationship.

Eugene Mirman

I don't have a kid, but I think that I would be a good father, especially if my baby liked to go out drinking.

Euripides

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

Francis of Assisi

Such was the will of the Father that his Son, blessed and glorious, whom he gave to us, and who was born for us, should by his own blood, sacrifice, and oblation, offer himself on the altar of the cross, not for himself, by whom "all things were made," but for our sins, leaving us an example that we should follow his steps.

Francis of Assisi

Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar.

Francis Ford Coppola

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.

Francis Ford Coppola

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

Francis Chan

Heavenly Father, thank You so much for Your grace. Your forgiveness is SO good that I struggle with believing it at times. Thank You for rescuing me from myself and giving me Your Holy Spirit. Your love is better than life.

Francine Rivers

I used to believe the purpose in life is to find happiness. I don’t believe that anymore. I believe we are all given gifts from our Father, and that our purpose is to offer them to Him. He knows how He wants us to use them.

Francis Bacon

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

Francis Bacon

The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

Francesco Cossiga

The Holy Father has acted as the Vicar of Christ and acted like Christ himself, who never refused to talk to anyone.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Robert Thompson

Thank God that somebody did find it. I grew up with her father -- we all kind of grew up together -- so I've known them forever.

I've had a varied background. My father taught me a valuable lesson, to have as many different experiences as you can.

Ernest Istook

My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.

Ernest Istook

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.

Flann O'Brien

The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a system of heavy drinking and could be always relied upon to make a break of at least twenty-five even with a bad cue.

Flannery O'Connor

She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.

Henry Louis Gates

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

Henry Louis Gates

My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.

Henry Louis Gates

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

Henry Louis Gates

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.

Henry Louis Gates

My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.

Henry Louis Gates

I didn't feel particularly close to my father.

Cat Stevens

To be calm when you've found something going on