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Quotes About Father

An unanticipated longing washed over him; how he wished his father were here. For weeks he had kept this feeling at bay. Holding his son in his arms, he could no longer. Tears poured from his eyes.
~ Justin Cronin
It is within this space that revelations come, and mine is this: there's only one thing I can do to help my father now, something I have never done before. I kiss him on the forehead. "I love you," I tell him.
~ Justin Cronin
I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently.
~ Justin Halpern
Just like Jesus's earthly father, his heavenly Father is a carpenter. He is building a footstool for his Son
~ K. Scott Oliphint
There are certain traditions," Father went on, shifting his head a little so he was looking just over the top of Gignomai's head, as though he was talking to where Gignomai should have been at age fourteen, if he hadn't turned out disappointingly short.
~ K.J. Parker
are children of the Father by virtue of our existence; trapped in Time we may be, but our Father loves us and He will find us.
~ Kabir
Mijn vader huilde nooit. Als hij bedroefd was, liep hij naar de tempel van de onbekende heilige. Daar knielde hij naast het graf, tikte zachtjes met een steentje tegen de grafsteen, praatte met de heilige en als hij zich weer beter voelde, wandelde hij terug naar huis.
~ Kader Abdolah
Here Philippos the father buried his son Nikoteles, a child of twelve and his dearest hope.
~ Kallimachos
According to his divine nature Christ is "one in essence" (homoousios) with God the Father; according to his human nature he is homoousios with us men. According
~ Kallistos Ware
As at the Annunciation, so in the extension of Christ's Incarnation at the Eucharist, the Father sends down the Holy Spirit, to effect the Son's presence in the consecrated gifts. Here, as always, the three persons of the Trinity are working together.
~ Kallistos Ware
She was the portrait to his father's Dorian Gray – all the anxiety you'd expect him to feel was manifest in her.
~ Kamila Shamsie
Your father doesn't see any of this. Little princeling wants a crown on his head and his hands lily-white. He can't have both. Why do you have to be
~ Kamila Shamsie
I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Every step of the way throughout my life as an athlete and activist, I felt my father's large hand on my shoulder guiding me down a path of service and justice. When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. -Bayard Rustin
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Came to acting pretty late. It looked wonderful, but I guess I was intimidated by my father. I look a bit like him, and he was so much bigger than life and so great, it took me a bit longer than most people to have enough confidence in myself.
~ Miguel Ferrer
Maybe I was intimidated by my father's talent and success.
~ Miguel Ferrer
My dad's not a very intimidating father figure.
~ Georgia May Jagger
My dad bought me a dartboard for my 11th birthday, and I became intrigued by the game.
~ Eric Bristow
As a little girl, I aspired to be a doctor not just because my late father was a doctor but because I was mainly intrigued by science.
~ Sherlyn Chopra
My father was the first person to introduce me to self-defense and martial arts, which I've been doing all my life now.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
First and foremost, I loved basketball. My dad introduced me to basketball when I was a baby.
~ Lauren Wasser
I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.
~ William John Wills
About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Learning to meditate is one of my earliest memories. I started when I was maybe three or four. I mean, I didn't know I was meditating. I just thought it was a weird game my dad had invented.
~ Jamal Murray