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Quotes About Father

The idea of going to the movies made Hugo remember something Father had once told him about going to the movies when he was just a boy, when the movies were new. Hugo's father had stepped into a dark room, and on a white screen he had seen a rocket fly right into the eye of the man in the moon. Father said he had never experienced anything like it. It had been like seeing his dreams in the middle of the day.
~ Brian Selznick
Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like the meaning of your dream, or your dad.
~ Brian Selznick
May his joyous grace and total well-being, flowing from our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, rest upon you.
~ Brian Simmons
20When a son learns wisdom, a father's heart is glad.
~ Brian Simmons
When wisdom comes to a son, joy comes to a father. When a son turns from wisdom, a mother grieves.
~ Brian Simmons
The wisdom of Solomon:a When wisdom comes to a son, joy comes to a father.
~ Brian Simmons
6A child has been born for us; a son has been given to us.j The responsibility of complete dominion will rest on his shoulders, and his name will be: The Wonderful One! The Extraordinary Strategist! The Mighty God!k The Father of Eternity! The Princel of Peace!
~ Brian Simmons
11Jesus, the Holy One, makes us holy. And as sons and daughters, we now belong to his same Father,n so he is not ashamed or embarrassed to introduce us as his brothers and sisters!
~ Brian Simmons
24When a father observes his child living in godliness, he is ecstatic with joy—nothing makes him prouder!
~ Brian Simmons
In 8:6 we find revelation-truth about Christ that hadn't been understood before: "For us there is only one God—the Father. He is the source of all things, and our lives are lived for him. And there is one Lord, Jesus, the Anointed One, through whom we and all things exist." Here Paul equates the one true God of Israel, Yahweh, with Jesus. Jesus is Yahweh, the only true God.
~ Brian Simmons
Father smiled.
~ Brom
Funny how long it took us to learn the simple fact that God really is a Father, as displeased with a cramped, niggardly attitude of lack as with its opposite failing of acquisitiveness. ———
~ Brother Andrew
God really is a Father, as displeased with a cramped, niggardly attitude of lack as with its opposite.
~ Brother Andrew
Our heavenly Father is great in mercy, He feeds and clothes us everyday, We will worship and humbly learn from him For our Lord clothes the grass of the field.
~ Brother Yun
father didn't even know about me until my mother sent him a birth announcement and asked for money to buy baby clothes.
~ Bruce D. Perry
given the amount of material Freud provides in the case study, but one point which seems amply clear is that all of the Rat Man's problems are intimately related to his father.
~ Bruce Fink
As Adam brought death, so Christ brought life; as Adam is the father of mortality, so Christ is the father of immortality.
~ Bruce R. McConkie
I told them I failed my draft physical. My dad, who often dismissively uttered the words "I can't wait 'til the army gets ahold of you," sat at the kitchen table, flicked the ash off of his cigarette, took a puff, slowly let the smoke escape from his lips and mumbled, "That's good.
~ Bruce Springsteen
It would not all be easy sailing from here on, but modern pharmacological medicine gave my father ten extra years of life and a peace he might never have had. He and my mother got to celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary. He got to know his grandchildren and we became much closer. He became easier to reach, to know and love.
~ Bruce Springsteen
During the period of the shortest, sleepy days of winter that are demarcated from morning and evening on both sides by furry edges of twilight, when the city branches out ever more deeply into the labyrinths of the winter nights and is summoned back by a brief dawn to reflection, to a return home, my father was already lost, sold, sworn to that other sphere.
~ Bruno Schulz
bore a hidden grudge against Mother for the ease with which she moved on past the loss of Father to daily routine. She never loved him, I thought, and because Father was not rooted in the heart of any woman, he also could not grow into any reality and floated eternally on the periphery of life, in half-real regions, on the edges of actuality.
~ Bruno Schulz
When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.
~ Bruno Tonioli
Dad was a bus driver, and when he finished work he would repair cars.
~ Bruno Tonioli
Because we have the identity of the Son, we have the favor of the Father.
~ Bryan Chapell