Quotes about father
father men thinking
The man's father is a wonderful human being. I think this guy is a loser. Harry Reid
father government secret
When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix. Harry S Truman
father failure 4th-of-july
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
father community brotherhood
The true foundation of the brotherhood of humankind is belief in the knowledge that God is the Father of humankind. For us, therefore, brotherhood is not only a generous impulse but also a divine command.
father son car
You don't buy into huge car chases or sensates or interstellar warfare, but you can buy into a loving relationship or a father-son relationship, and you can buy into the small humor. If you want to make your fiction universal, go small. That's the best way to do it. J. Michael Straczynski
father night way
Prongs rode again last night... You know, Harry, in a way, you did see your father last night... You found him inside yourself. J. K. Rowling
father hair expression
Hello, Harry!” she said. “Er — my name’s Barny,” said Harry, flummoxed. “Oh, have you changed that too?” she asked brightly. “How did you know — ?” “Oh, just your expression,” she said. Like her father, Luna was wearing bright yellow robes, which she had accessorized with a large sunflower in her hair. Once you got over the brightness of it all, the general effect was quite pleasant. At least there were no radishes dangling from her ears.
father son black
You are — truly your father’s son, Harry. . . .
father heart tree
And now a chill settled over them where they stood, and Harry heard the rasping breath of the dementors that patrolled the outer trees. They would not affect him now. The fact of his own survival burned inside him, a talisman against them, as though his father's stag kept guardian in his heart.
father kids house
Just — just to be clear,” he said. “You want to leave Tonks at her parents’ house and come away with us?” “She’ll be perfectly safe there, they’ll look after her,” said Lupin. He spoke with a finality bordering on indifference. “Harry, I’m sure James would have wanted me to stick with you.” “Well,” said Harry slowly, “I’m not. I’m pretty sure my father would have wanted to know why you aren’t sticking with your own kid, actually.
father age jazz
Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it. Nat Wolff
father agriculture world
In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture. Mukesh Ambani
father generations firsts
My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.
fatherhood world maintaining
Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently its the most difficult thing in the world. Kelly Slater
fatherhood natural difficult
Fatherhood isn't always a planned thing, but when it happens you just do it. It's very natural and in that sense it's not really difficult.
father adopted tall
I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall. Keegan-Michael Key
father people world
I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away. Kate Burton
father piano littles
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. He was really a hugely encouraging force to me when I was little. Kate Bush
father leaving world
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too. Kate DiCamillo
father heart two
But still, here are the words Despereaux Tilling spoke to his father. He said, "I forgive you, Pa!" And he said those words because he sensed that it was the only way to save his heart, to stop it from breaking in two. Despereaux, reader, spoke those words to save himself.
father storm eras
I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end. Karen Thompson Walker
father lying fall
I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years. Once in awhile, a letter does fall behind a post office desk and lie there for years before it's finally discovered and delivered to the rightful address. The seemingly brain-dead sometimes wake up and start talking. I'm always on the lookout for proof that what is done can sometimes be undone.
father care nobody-cares
Gar taldin ni jaonyc; gar sa buir, ori'wadaasla. (Nobody cares who your father was, only the father you'll be.) - Mandalorian saying Karen Traviss
father everyday littles
Everyday I see a little more of my father in me.. Keith Urban
father blow littles
My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. Keith Richards
father spring kissing
In fact, I take the view that God, in his infinite wisdom, didn't bother to spring for two joints - heaven and hell. They're the same place, but heaven is when you get everything you want and you meet Mummy and Daddy and your best friends and you all have a hug and a kiss and play your harps. Hell is the same place - no fire and brimstone - but they all pass by and don't see you. There's nothing, no recognition. You're waving, "It's me, your father," but you're invisible. You're on a cloud, you've got your harp, but you can't play with nobody because they don't see you. That's hell.
father men interesting
Nobody ever asks men about the work-life balance, and I just find that interesting, because clearly, I would imagine most men also want to be good fathers, and I'm sure they want to be good partners. Katie Couric
father feelings identity
I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed that Katharine Carr Esters claims that she was 'tricked' into divulging her true feelings about Oprah and that she now denies that she revealed to me the identity of Oprah's biological father. Kitty Kelley
father self care
This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but the life she was living, with all its complexities. This was her life, built with care and attention, and it was good. Kim Edwards
father addiction darkness
She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.
father other-worlds imagination
That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.
father people trying
I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people
father different seems
It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.