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Quotes About Father

What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into the political system, and all I saw when was small after my grandmother died was my father in constant - constant combat with the system in India, and then I saw him die, actually.
~ Rahul Gandhi
My father documented on film for the last time what Tibet looked like before the world got there.
~ Peter Sís
My father gave me a copy of 'Seven Years in Tibet,' and that's what turned me on to Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism.
~ Genesis P-Orridge
My father went to Rutgers, and I grew up in New Jersey, so I'm a great Rutgers fan. I have season tickets.
~ Peter Eisenman
My family home was a rented house in the East End of London. My parents could have bought it at one point, but they preferred to spend their money on holidays and theatre tickets. It was strange to see it handed on to someone else when my father passed away.
~ Matthew Bourne
It must have been the fall of 1952 when my father returned to London sporting a neck tie emblazoned with the words 'I Like Ike.'
~ Nigel Hamilton
I thought my dad was out of work, because my friends had fathers with briefcases who'd go off somewhere with bow ties on. But my father would finish breakfast and go back to his room.
~ Thomas Steinbeck
My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament.
~ Ziggy Marley
In this world there is very little harmony between the inner and the outer life. But, if we live according to the will of God, then the time will come when there will be perfect harmony between the inner and the outer life for ever. The outer will be exactly like the inner and the inner exactly like the outer. And by his grace we shall become perfect like our Father in Heaven.
~ Sadhu Sundar Singh
He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.
~ Saint Augustine
He cannot have God for his father who has not the Church for his Mother.
~ Saint Cyprian
I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.
~ Sally Pearson
Tree I dreamt you invisible majesty hovering above the face of all things. Rooted in the pain of ash, mere man, I bore you, sepulchre, dead father, silently, within, called out to you the windswept words of lost millennia, words that kindle rage. You never answered me. You left me fearing night, hidden fire, leaping flame, tree God in the night.
~ Salvador Espriu
Lee was my father's lawyer, a mensch. But he's been very sick. Cancer. Pancreatic." "That's one of the worst. A killer." "Yes, the ones that kill you are definitely the worst. [...]
~ Sam Lipsyte
Mi papá vive solo en el desierto. Dice que no se lleva bien con la gente.
~ Sam Shepard
I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.
~ Sam Sheppard
Well, a square dance might start innocent, but it sure don't take long to cut off the corners." Father
~ Sam Torode
Leaving my father behind—with all of his baggage—was like giving up an old teddy bear. You know it's just an object, incapable of comforting you with its tattered fur and missing button eye, but it's something you cling to, even though you know it can't give anything back.
~ Samantha Hart
These are the parts of him I find impossible to cut myself loose from. They are beautiful qualities. But beauty is heavy, and though I'm young I am getting tired from carrying around the bits and shreds of my father's beauty.
~ Samantha Hunt
If I had shown half as many dangerous tendencies when I was a boy, my father would have apprenticed me to a greengrocer, of that I'm very sure
~ Samuel Butler
The father of English criticism.
~ Samuel Johnson
There is a religion in all deep love, but the love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.
~ Samuel West