Quotes About Father
Min had innumerable questions, and Chung-Cha tried to answer them all as best she could. "Is the Supreme Leader really three meters tall?" "I have never met him, so I do not know." "They say he is the strongest person on earth and his mind is full of all the knowledge in the world." "They said the same to me about his father.
~ David Baldacci
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A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist.
~ David Brin
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man must love his father and yet be free of his father's expectations and criticisms in order to be a free man.
~ David Deida
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Durnik needs a tower somewhere in the Vale, Belgarath was saying. I don't see why, father, Polgara replied. All of Aldur's disciples have towers, Pol. It's the custom. Old customs persist --even when there's no longer any need for them. He's going to need to study, Pol. How can he possibly study with you underfoot all the time? She gave him a long, chilly stare. Maybe I should rephrase that.
~ David Eddings
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I know that in your heart you miss all those wonderful moments you spent with my father --watching him gnaw on the furniture, listening to his insane gibbering, and enjoying all those playful blows to the stomach and kicks to the head with which he demonstrated his affection for his wives. --King Urgit
~ David Eddings
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Cristo, como Adán, también nació sin pecado. Pero, a diferencia de Adán, aprendió a caminar ante su Padre con gozo y completa obediencia.
~ David F. Wells
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But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was the only thing of importance, choosing. . . How to choose any but a child's greedy choices if there is no loving-filled father to guide, inform, teach the person how to choose? How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?
~ David Foster Wallace
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Have a father who lived up to his own promise and then found thing after thing to meet and surpass the expectations of his promise in, and didn't seem just a whole hell of a lot happier or tighter wrapped than his own failed father, leaving you yourself in a kind of feral and flux-ridden state with respect to talent.
~ David Foster Wallace
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The father of Ruth van Cleve's child, she reports, is under the protection and care of the Norfolk County Correctional Authority, awaiting sentencing for what Ruth van Cleve describes several times as operating a pharmaceutical company without a license.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Here is how to sit through small openings of your father's first art films, surrounded by surly foreign cigarette smoke and conversations so pretentious you literally cannot believe them, you're sure you have misheard them.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Jim's internal life was to Orin a black hole, Orin said, his father's face any room's fifth wall.
~ David Foster Wallace
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It Was a Great Marvel That He Was in the Father without Knowing Him
~ David Foster Wallace
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Under what presidential administration was this room last deep-cleaned, I'm standing here prompted to fucking muse out loud,' my father said.
~ David Foster Wallace
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A father (Watt), suffering from the delusion that his etymologically precocious son (Smothergill) is pretending to be mute, poses as a 'professional conversationalist' in order to draw the boy out.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Fai ciao ciao al burocrate rimane il film favorito di Mario tra tutti quelli di loro padre, forse per la sua serietà così poco di moda. Anche se a Mario ha sempre detto che è troppo mieloso, piace anche a Hal, la cartuccia, e gli piace proiettarsi con l'immaginazione nel personaggio dell'ex burocrate mentre guida piacevolmente verso casa e verso la cancellazione deontologica.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Orin, Mario, and Hal's late father was revered as a genius in his original profession without anybody ever realizing what he really turned out to be a genius at, even he himself, at least not while he was alive, which is perhaps bona-fidely tragic but also, as far as Mario's concerned, ultimately all right, if that's the way things unfolded.
~ David Foster Wallace
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If dad had always been as weak and as friendly as he was now that he was dying. If only he could have been dying for twenty years, Stan might have loved him.
~ Unknown
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Oh, John, you're a great father, but you don't understand kids. I've worked in hospitals with kids like Jennifer. Kids that were terminal. They had it figured out long before their parents could admit it to themselves." "She is not terminal," he snarled, glaring at Makala angrily. She said nothing. "Damn you, no." He was humiliated by the tears that suddenly clouded his vision. He struggled to choke back the sobs that now overwhelmed him.
~ William R. Forstchen
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Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong Hark! now I hear them,—Ding-dong, bell.
~ William Shakespeare
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Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.
~ William Shakespeare
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Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.
~ William Shakespeare
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Mother, you have my father much offended.
~ William Shakespeare
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She speaks much of her father; says she hears There's tricks i' the world; and hems, and beats her heart; Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt, That carry but half sense. (Ophelia)
~ William Shakespeare
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Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought
~ William Shakespeare
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