Quotes About Father

As the Father is fountain and the Son is river, we are said to drink the Spirit.

If I guess your secret, will you tell me if I'm right?" His father laughed but didn't answer.

He lowered his eyes to his dad's face. There was fear there. Fear. When your dad was frightened, there was something to be frightened about.

Christmas was just another workday, just as it had been growing up in Alabama. In a good year back then, little Robert got a handkerchief and an orange. One year his father fashioned a little cart—although come to think of it that was in the spring, not at Christmastime—and the children took turns being pulled around the yard by the family goat. Then he died. His father and the goat.

Were they merely mortal remains? she thought, as the air cleared and a billowy white cloud momentarily obscured the sunbeams. Was that all she'd let go, or had she, as her father promised, allowed a falcon to take flight?

From New York Harbor to Grand Central Station, then onto a train to a place called Princeton Junction. Once there, Simone and her father had been shuttled to a single railcar that traveled on a short spur line, no more than a mile or two long, which terminated at the foot of the university campus.

Just as conversation is the bridge that connects you with those whom you love, prayer is the glue that affixes your heart to your heavenly Father.

But in 1982 (one year before Barack graduated), Barack Obama, Sr., died in a car accident. He

father was ashamed of the baby and left him with his mother.

The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster, he has yet neither power nor knowledge, the monster is his secret father who will invest him with a power and knowledge that can belong to one man only, and that only the monster can give.

He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father.

I said: He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much. But he is a Beast, said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, Cannot a Beast be tamed?

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

It is a commonplace to identify Martin Luther as the 'father of individualism'.

Religion, for Father Pavel, involved no escape from the natural into the supernatural, no repudiation of this world for the sake of a better one whose unreality made it more malleable to our wishes. In his perspective, the natural and the supernatural were one and the same: the world became transparent, with the light of eternity shining from the other side.

The red bird, the Jewel bearer, born of my blood from my father's hand, had returned to defend me.

Now he felt the despair his father had felt as the familiar world slipped from around him, the valleys gashed and ugly, the woods disappearing. Daddy was right, he thought, the hills were dying, and I was so stupid to believe the hills were eternal, that a father could stay forever young. If only I had talked to him. If only he had let me get close to him.

In addition to his better-known title of Father of His Country, Washington is also revered in certain circles as the Father of the American Mule.

Jack lacked the nerve to contest his terrifying, distant father.

But if John nursed vengeful feelings toward Bill, it must have been secretly gratifying to him that his father left at the very dawn of his triumph and forfeited any claim to his wealth.

Unlike his father's composed look, his already seemed restless.

In Junior's opinion, his sisters were also disqualified because they did not handle their finances in the scrupulous manner demanded by father.

By instinct, by blind faith, by knowledge of his father's private character—by everything but detailed knowledge of his business career

They fussed over every item with that small flutter of anxiety that Junior always felt when performing a task for his father.