Quotes About Father

In my Father's house are many mansions.

The Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it." [Gospel of Thomas 113]

As Jesus says, "The Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon earth, and men do not see it.

The German pilot had come up and was standing by smiling as Mr. Parker Pyne finished answering a long interrogation which he had not understood. "What have I said?" he asked of the German "That your father's Christian name is Tourist, that your profession is Charles, that the maiden name of your mother is Baghdad, and that you have come from Harriet.

If only father would be decent and die, I should be all right.

My dear Bobby, did I understand you to say that someone had offered you a thousand a year? A thousand?" "Holed it in one, Dad," said Bobby. "It's impossible," said the Vicar. Bobby was not hurt by this frank incredulity. His estimate of his own monetary value differed little from that of his father. "They must be complete mutts," he agreed heartily.

Father persevered for a little longer but soon decided that conversation with General Radley was practically impossible and almost certainly unprofitable.

asked Father, speaking in an easy and confidential way.

No, Mr. Fortescue, it was among your father's papers

Det tog mig många år att inse vilken makt pappas tystnad hade utövat. Ja, mäns envisa tigande.

I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.

It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.

Joshua's genes are no better. I would talk to him about this sometimes, asking if it worried him, the DNA he has to work hard to outsmart. His own crazy father: the brilliant doctor, so warm and charming with patients. The violent alcoholic behind closed doors.

I have that officer who administered the Army physical to thank for sparing me. Or maybe I should say I have my father to thank.

Preparing for this second shot, the actress playing the daughter (Todoroki Yukiko) asked me, "Mr. Kurosawa, do I just pray for my father's victory?" I replied, "Yes, that's right, but while you're at it, you might as well pray for the success of this picture, too.

Seeing how much hope my father still cherished for my prospects as an artist, I felt like starting over in painting. I began sketching again.

I went straight to my father and begged him to enter me in Ochiai's fencing school. He was overjoyed. I don't know if my interest had occasioned a resurgence of the samurai blood in my father's veins or the reawakening of his military-academy teacher's spirit, but, whichever it was, the effect was remarkable.

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

He was a shitty husband, a cruel and distant father, and had absolutely no empathy for other human beings.

You could measure how long I would remember that moment by the redness of my cheeks. My father saw that I liked projects and taught me how to make lamps out of Chianti bottles.

she would follow her father over the horizon and down the other side, where the world lay hidden.

Spying came to him as making love comes to other men. It is his belief, in fact, that his father may have had relations with the Okhrana, the czar's intelligence service, though his murder by the Turks was haphazard—simply one act in a village slaughter. But Avram knew them, whether they were Turkish Aghas or British officers, he always understood how they worked, where their vulnerabilities lay.

A wide streak of blood trailed from the entrance of the tomb to Hideki's father, and Hideki's heart lurched.

All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man.