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Quotes About Father

The first thing we could say was simply: 'I believe in God, the Father, the almighty creator of heaven and earth.
~ Werner Heisenberg
But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one.
~ Wilfred Owen
Ran into my doppelgänger at the mall. Tried hard not to bust up laughing when my 4yr old yelled "hey daddy, isn't that YOU?"
~ Will Arnett
The father knows the son whole, but the son can never know the father.
~ Daniel Mendelsohn
Later, when the man saw Jesus in the temple, he told the Pharisees and they harassed Jesus because of the sabbath healing. "My Father works everyday, and so do I," Jesus replied.
~ Daniel Partner
Que un hijo muera antes que su padre. Revierte el orden natural de las cosas. —Arrojó su cigarrillo al fuego—. Uno no puede llorar como es debido.
~ Daniel Silva
What a most unreasonably stubborn man," he said. "One must be more open to opposing views in this world." "You don't say." "Oh, indeed! As our late father often said, 'Toleration is good for all or it is good for non.
~ Daniel Stashower
What a most unreasonably stubborn man," he said. "One must be more open to opposing views in this world." "You don't say." "Oh, indeed! As our late father often said, 'Toleration is good for all or it is good for none.
~ Daniel Stashower
Perhaps talk of counters turned the boy's thoughts to his father's glove shop. His father would have accounted for all his transactions using the tokens. They were hard and round and very thin, made of copper or brass. There were counters for one pair of gloves, and for two pairs, and three and four and five. But there was no counter for zero. No counters existed for all the sales that his father did not close.
~ Daniel Tammet
I look into his gray-blue dying eyes. We're staring at each other, showing each other our last looks, the faces we'll take with us into eternity, and I'm thinking how I wish I knew him better, how I wish we'd had a life together, wishing my father wasn't such a complete and utter goddamn mystery to me...
~ Daniel Wallace
Then she moved backwards, deeper into the shadow. All I could see was that she was barely there, like something you almost recall: the Pledge of Allegiance, your daddy's real name.
~ Daniel Woodrell
While Dad was in prison the rule had been to never see the same stud three nights. One night is forgot like a fart, two like a pang, but after three nights lain together there is a hurt, and to soothe the hurt there will be night four, and five, and nights unnumbered. The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.
~ Daniel Woodrell
But my father had already removed his hand from his pocket, and everyone could see the scrap of newspaper into which he proceeded to blow his nose. Any kind of excitement provoked powerful disturbances in his metabolism and ample secretions of fluids. If he got out of that scramble alive, the first thing he would do would be to go behind a bush and urinate, breaking wind vigorously, I was sure of that.
~ Danilo Kiš
The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.
~ Danny DeVito
I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.
~ Dante Hall
But Jesus said to him, "Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels? How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen thus?" Matthew 26:52–54, NKJV
~ Darlene Zschech
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen. Matthew 28:19–20, NKJV
~ Darlene Zschech
Paul reminds us that "righteous character" brings much glory and praise to God. So I want my life—my decisions and relationships and everyday walk—to be just as much of a worship celebration to my Father God.
~ Darlene Zschech
I had a dad you know.
~ Darrell Hammond
The God who has claimed us for himself if Father, Son and Holy Spirit; not just Father, not just Son, not just Spirit. God is God FOR US - Father. God is God WITH US - Son. God is God IN US - Spirit.
~ Darrell W. Johnson
My son was circumcised by his father. Who's not a doctor, just cheap.
~ Daryl Hogue
Sometimes at night she would be wakened by thunderclaps of passion from her father in the next room. They terrified and disgusted her, although they were not so nauseating as the underlying slithery hypocrisy of her mother's acceptance. She'd always thought her mother was the loving one and her father stolid.
~ Dave Duncan
Probably that story would turn out to be fairly typical of the whole garrison, but asking questions was the only way to learn. So Father had always said: nobles could learn even from commoners if they cared to make the effort.
~ Dave Duncan
Months passed away without dreams about the Agni Ki…or my father. My new life began to find new rhythm. But then…as suddenly as it always does…everything changed.
~ Dave Roman