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Quotes About Father

Tatínek byl už tehdy rybáÃ…â"¢ským funkcionáÃ…â"¢em jako vÄ›tÅ¡ina bývalých pytlák?.
~ Ota Pavel
My father always said I would do something big one day. 'I've got a feeling about you, John Osbourne,' he'd tell me, after he'd had a few beers. 'You're either going to do something very special, or you're going to go to prison.' And he was right, my old man. I was in prison before my eighteenth birthday.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
Édesapám pedig, akinél így minden összefolyt, mint a vizek az óceánban, azt gondolta (mikor még élt), hogy nyilván létezik valaki, Valaki, aki nekem se mond el mindent, hogy ne legyen sok nekem se.
~ Peter Esterhazy
210 My father: a horse has four legs, and it still trips up. In the same way, the Danube has two banks, but they shot the Jews into it just the same.
~ Peter Esterhazy
Emotions are ill-suited for creating systems, my father's friend said, disheartened, whereas that's what we're talking about.
~ Peter Esterhazy
274 My father is just like Piero della Francesca's father: metaphorical.
~ Peter Esterhazy
Well, anyway, we walked around for a while, looking at the animals, and suddenly he asked me to marry him outside the cage of the Siberian yak. No sir, exclaimed Sigsbee H with a sudden strange firmness, the indulgent father who for once in his life asserts himself. When you get married, you'll get married in St Thomas's like any other nice girl.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Oh, is that my report, father?' said Mike, with a sort of sickly interest, much as a dog about to be washed might evince in his tub.' - Mike and Psmith
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Oh, is that my report, father? said Mike, with a sort of sickly interest, much as a dog about to be washed might evince in his tub.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
No, Kramisha, he's not black. He's a killer bird with evil for his Daddy.
~ P.C. Cast
It must have been something pretty bad. It took a lot to make them chuck people out of music-halls in 1887. "Your uncle specifically states that father had drunk a quart and a half of champagne before beginning the evening," she went on. "The book is full of stories like that. There is a dreadful one about Lord Emsworth." "Lord Emsworth! Not the one we know? Not the one at Blandings?
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Years before, when a boy, and romantic as most boys are, his lordship had sometimes regretted that the Emsworths, though an ancient clan, did not possess a Family Curse. How little he had suspected that he was shortly to become the father of it.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Papa te llamas papa y no patata
~ Pablo Neruda
Heavenly Father, my body cells are made of light, my fleshly cells are made of Thee. They are Spirit, for Thou art Spirit; they are immortal, for Thou art Life.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
JUDGMENT Whenever you talk against another person for the love of gossip or through force of habit, remember, you will be judged by your Heavenly Father in the same way. Whatever you give out, the same will you attract. If you peddle the weaknesses of others, the Divine Law will mysteriously bring about the publicity of your own inner faults.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was the only person I ever knew who looked upon childhood as a dishonorable vocation one grew out of as quickly as possible.
~ Pat Conroy
My father managed to change his entire life after I wrote a novel about his brutal regime as a family man. It took resoluteness and courage for my father to change, and I need to acknowledge that.
~ Pat Conroy
It's the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much.
~ Pat Conroy
Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.
~ Pat Conroy
If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.
~ Pat Conroy
But, until that day, I had no idea I was being raised by one of the goddamnest fighter pilots in the history of the Marine Corps. My father and I looked at each other, and I believe we both realized we had just completed our first great day as father and son.
~ Pat Conroy
The only other people who shared this piece of earned intelligence were my father, my brother, and those anonymous fishermen whose innocent footprints undermined the numinous rarity of my father's secret hermitage.
~ Pat Conroy
Kir stood close to his father, watching. He seemed, Peri realized, finally becalmed; already he looked more like his mother, as if he were relinquishing his human experience. He found her looking at him wistfully; he gave her a sea-smile. She swallowed a briny taste of sadness in her throat. Already he was leaving her.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
You look like her, in that dress," our father told me shyly, unaccustomed to complimenting me. He added, as I stepped on his foot, "You don't dance like her." "I haven't had her practice." I said amiably.
~ Patricia A. McKillip