Quotes About Father

Mitch's father's exclusive gated community had an extensive guard gate. In fact, it had two. It also had an electrified fence. And towers with armed guards. All things considered, few gated communities could be more exclusive than the Colorado State Penitentiary.

Fear, Ayn. Fear is the beloved father of respect.

This Porsche was a gift from an antique car dealer," Scythe Curie explained to her. "He wanted immunity?" Citra asked, assuming the man's motive. "On the contrary. I had just gleaned his father, so he already had immunity." "Wait," said Citra. "You gleaned his father, and he gave you a car?" "Yes." "So he hated his father?" "No, he loved his father very much." "Am I missing something?

Nick realized that the end of the world must be upon them, because his father preparing a home-cooked meal two nights in a row was surely a sign of the apocalypse.

it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.

My father didn't drive because he wanted to save gas. He needed the gas to drive to and from his invisible job.

My father was a great literary teacher. He taught me the meaning of pain. Pain without reason.

one day the goldfish died, all five of them, they floated on the water, on their sides, their eyes still open, and when my father got home he threw them to the cat there on the kitchen floor and we watched as my mother smiled

I felt that even the sun belonged to my father, that I had no right to it because it was shining upon my father's house. I was like his roses, something that belonged to him and not to me.

My father didn't like people. He didn't like me. "Children should be seen and not heard," he told me.

Nobody knew how good I was, nobody knew what I could do. I was some kind of miracle. The sun tossed yellow everywhere and I cut through it, a crazy knife on wheels. My father was a beggar in the streets of India but all the women in the world loved me...

Because Wayna Qhapaq had not actually married Washkar's mother—the union was properly incestuous but not properly legitimate—the new Inka demanded that his mother participate ex post facto in a wedding ceremony with his father's mummy.

The chronological list of rulers differs on different lists, some lists do not include known kings, and some include kings who probably were mythological—as if a tally of English rulers matter-of-factly included King Arthur and his father, Uther Pendragon. The

For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God. Ephesians 2:18,19

He is so full of manure, that man, we could lay him in the dirt and grow another one just like him. Ruby about her dad in Cold Mountain

Miss Howell, I worry that the pains your father has taken to educate you will result in little but finding himself with a wit on his hands.

The father let his rifle down and stood its butt against the porch boards. The boy, though, kept alert. There was a good deal of killer about him, and it was why he still lived. The last four years had made a whole generation of young boys -- who ought to have been going to school and learning a trade and thrilling deep in their bones just to dance with a girl and peck her on the cheek -- into slit-eyed killers with no more tell of emotion than an old riverboat faro gambler.

Unless you're playing Who's Hiding the Ecstasy?, I don't think I'm gonna be able to make it. I've got plans. Don't married people know that the last thing a single person wants to do on a Friday night is play a nutty game of Yahtzee? I'd rather take a bubble bath with my father.

HEAVENLY FATHER, please give me the right words to speak, words that will satisfy the soul of every listener. Let my words encourage and not discourage those who hear me speak. Help my tongue to nourish life and not to kill. And perhaps most important of all, help me to encourage others to be encouragers.

Okonkwo was ruled by one passion -- to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved. One of those things was gentleness and another was idleness.

Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo's fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself. It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father.

Any evil which you might have seen with your eyes, or spoken with your mouth, or heard with your ears or trodden with your feet; whatever your father might have brought upon you or your mother brought upon you, I cover them all here.

Es cierto que los hijos pertenecen a los padres. Pero cuando un padre le pega a su hijo, éste busca consuelo en la cabaña de su madre. Un hombre pertenece al país de su padre cuando las cosas van bien y la vida es dulce: Pero cuando hay pena y amargura, encuentra refugio en la tierra de su madre. Tu madre está ahí para protegerte. Está enterrada ahí. Y por eso decimos que la madre es suprema.

The boy who persists in asking what happened to his father before he has enough strength to avenge him is asking for his father's fate...