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Quotes About Father

Lady Macduff: Now God help thee, poor monkey! But how wilt thou do for a father? Son: If he were dead, you'd weep for him. If you would not, it were a good sign that I should quickly have a new father.
~ William Shakespeare
It is a wise father who knows his own child.
~ Unknown
Oh, I would say, you've never understood me, Harry, that not out of vengeance have I accomplished all my sins but because something has always been close to dying in my soul, and I've sinned only in order to lie down in darkness and find, somewhere in the net of dreams, a new father, a new home.
~ William Styron
Through some happy accident of heredity he had escaped his father's tediousness, while retaining a little of his mother's jolly high spirits and humor. This did not make him anything special, but at least he was good-natured.
~ William Styron
When you think of all the bad people - Poles, Germans, Russians, French, all nationalities - all these evil people who escaped, people who killed Jews who are alive right now. In Germany. And places like Argentina. And my father - this good man - who had to die! Isn't that enough to make you not believe in this God. Who can believe in God who turn His back on people like that?
~ William Styron
The youngest of three children and orphaned as a young boy, Smoke Jensen is considered one of the fastest draws in the West. His quest to tame the lawless West has become the stuff of legend. Smoke owns the Sugarloaf Ranch in Colorado. Married to Sally Jensen, father to Denise ("Denny") and Louis
~ William W. Johnstone
all he wanted was toleration, and by the enlightened use of the dispensing power to be the true father of all his people.
~ Winston S. Churchill
I feared the wish was father to the thought.
~ Winston S. Churchill
You don't understand, father," said Ludwik. "What don't I understand? What?!" "Organization." "To hell with organization! What organization?!" "The rational organization of society and of the world." Leon attacked Ludwik across the table with his bald pate: "What do you want to organize? Organize how?" "Scientifically.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Justo castigo La vida es un auténtico caos, pensé. Los sentimientos resultan tan imprevisibles. ¿Cómo es posible que alguien soporte permanecer casado durante cuarenta años? Parece un milagro mayor que el paso del mar Rojo, aunque mi padre, en su ingenuidad, sostenga que es esto último un logro de mayor envergadura.
~ Woody Allen
But why must I be supervised? All it does is confirm to Satchel his father is to be feared, a threat. But I loved him and wanted to see him.
~ Woody Allen
And why threaten to "take my daughter"? Should the kids be used to wreak vengeance? Do you really want to deprive Dylan of her father to punish me? Are there no limits to your vengeance?
~ Woody Allen
What she seemed to mean was that knowing how much I loved Dylan, she was embarking on a plan to see to it I would not be able to see her anymore. Dylan's feelings wouldn't matter. The loss of her father, whom she loved, wouldn't matter. She would be used to exact revenge.
~ Woody Allen
Do you really want to deprive Dylan of her father to punish me? Are there no limits to your vengeance?
~ Woody Allen
Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.
~ Yann Martel
To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches.
~ Yann Martel
just beyond the ticket booth father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? an arrow pointed to a small curtain. there were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at that curtain that we had to replace it regularly. behind it was a mirror
~ Yann Martel
I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.
~ Christopher Judge
Most of us have small, sad places somewhere in our hearts and my father was no exception. Sometimes we let our feelings escape in bursts of anger. Sometimes we make long, dismal faces. My father did neither. He felt deeply but he kept his feelings to himself. Or rather, being a writer, he let them escape in his writing. But even here he disguised them, unable even in fiction to allow himself to take himself too seriously.
~ Unknown
My father, who has derived such happiness from his childhood, found in me the companion with who, he could return there.
~ Unknown
Among them would be an enterprising teenager in Freehold, New Jersey, who snapped up a mail order copy of the record, played it 'thirty or forty' times in rapid succession, and then immediately began badgering his father, a prison guard named Doug Springsteen, for a guitar.
~ Unknown
I AM!" the stranger said. "And there is no man in Arrethtrae who has ever truly fulfilled the Articles of the Code, nor will there ever be. I have come to fulfill the Code so that all men may become true Knights of the King by Me. No one may come to My Father except through Me!
~ Unknown
When we accept a lie, no matter how Satan got us to believe it, we transfer our belief from one Father (God) to believing another father (the enemy of our souls).
~ Chuck D. Pierce
a loving, caring Father who sent His Son to die for our sins. Jesus made it possible for us to enjoy this intimate relationship
~ Chuck Smith