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Quotes About Father

Our love for our Father in Heaven and the Lord Jesus Christ needs to be reflected in our daily choices and actions. They have promised peace, joy, and happiness to those who keep Their commandments.
~ M. Russell Ballard
More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.
~ Mark Twain
Holy and pure are the drops that fall, When the young bride goes from her father's hall; She goes unto love yet untried and new- She parts from love which hath still been true.
~ Martha Finley
Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.
~ Mitch Albom
I love my dad; I'm a daddy's girl, all the way.
~ Molly Quinn
I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.
~ Nate Berkus
For the first time, Ramona began to doubt that her father was the best artist in the whole world. This thought made her feel sad...
~ Beverly Cleary
Ramona and her father
~ Beverly Cleary
Maybe all boys were exasperating. Maybe this was one of the fundamental truths of life her father was always telling her she had so much to learn about.
~ Beverly Cleary
I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him.
~ Bill Bryson
As a rule, you knew it was time to eat when you could hear potatoes exploding in the oven. Happily, all this suited my father. His palate only responded to two tastes - burned and ice cream - so everything suited him so long as it was sufficiently dark and not startlingly flavorful. Theirs truly was a marriage made in heaven, for no one could burn food like my mother or eat it like my Dad.
~ Bill Bryson
When your heart is filled every day by the kindness of the Father, you have enough of His grace overflowing that you can extend His grace to others.
~ Bill Hybels
Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
~ Bill Watterson
Calvin sees the landline telephone ringing. He picks up the receiver. CALVIN: Hello THE VOICE OF THE CALLER: May I speak with your father, please? CALVIN: Heck, you don't need MY permisson! Be my guest! CALVIN, turning his back on the phone. He hangs up. Then he sneers: What a weirdo. THE LANDLINE TELPHONE: Ring, Ring
~ Bill Watterson
Both Calvin and Hobbes are sitting on a carpet, a magic carpet. They're riding in the sky, among the clouds. CALVIN: Hey, let's fly into the city and buzz Dad's office. CALVIN: Ha! Won't he be surprised whenhe sees US out his 20th-floor window. HOBBES: What if he's mad that we took the hallway rug? CALVIN: What's to get mad about? We wiped our feet first. HOBBES: Yeah, but all this city mileage may hurt the resale value.
~ Bill Watterson
my father) would say nothing, And I could not find a silence Among the one hundred Chinese silences That would fit the one he created Even though I was the one Who had just made up the business Of the one hundred Chinese silences- The Silence of the Night Boat. And the Silence of the Lotus, Cousin to the Silence of the Temple Bell Only deeper and softer…
~ Billy Collins
As I sat in the hotel room, I realized that in fact I had left my heavenly Father again. By allowing myself to become anxious, I had run off from His comforting Presence. When would I learn that I cannot worry and trust God at the same time! I relaxed in my chair and felt at peace again. "Oh, thank You, Father," I said weeping in relief. "Please forgive me for stepping away from You. You are here, You are in that hall. I'll be all right.
~ Bilquis Sheikh
my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understand me. The town he lived in and the town I lived in were not the same.
~ Bob Dylan
Before the war, James Roosevelt lobbied to get Joe Kennedy appointed to the Court of St. James by his father.
~ Bob Mayer
Could my Father not provide me With hosts of winged legions? Then, Having touched not a hair upon my head, My enemies would scatter without a trace. "But the book of life has reached a page Dearer than all that's sacred.
~ Boris Pasternak
Our fathers never leave us. Ever.
~ Brad Meltzer
You may never make peace with your father. But you can always make peace with yourself.
~ Brad Meltzer
Pocas cosas se te clavan tan adentro como las lágrimas de un padre.
~ Brad Meltzer
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?" – Father Foley
~ Brad Strickland