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Quotes About Father

It is a pretend question, one he asked so he could give the answer. I relax. This is like when my father complains about his boss. The best thing to do is to stay awake and blink sympathetically.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
My father stood and said, I will not live without my mind, then shook the doctor's hand and told me it was time to go home.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I think it's strange to live in a house with someone you cannot talk to-especially when that someone is your father-and the thought makes me a little sad.
~ Matthew Quick
It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.
~ Pamela Ribon
Every father wants a daughter to meet the right God, and the right man. Perhaps her father had failed with both.
~ Kathy Hepinstall, Blue Asylum
Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism.
~ James Clerk Maxwell
Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.
~ Albert Einstein
Necessity is the mother of invention, which probably explains why invention's father left home on the pretext of buying a newspaper and hasn't been heard of since.
~ Tom Holt, Doughnut
I'm going to see you now Papa… you better run...
~ A.J. Vega, Majesty's Offspring
Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.
~ Orson Scott Card, Pathfinder
My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow, ' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.'
~ Dean Kamen
At Christmastime, whenever I feel overwhelmed and a little out of sorts, all I have to do is think of my father and the things he'd be doing if he were here – and I smile.
~ Peggy Toney Horton
Smile, my beloved, like the gold smiles from my father's coffers.
~ Kahlil Gibran
But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man. What's very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I've ever met. He's a great man and a very good dad.
~ Zosia Mamet
Be bold as a leopard, light as an eagle, swift as a deer, and strong as a lion to do the will of your Father who is in heaven.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.
~ Abraham Lincoln
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes I think he wanted it to happen. Maybe he felt alone and unloved and he wanted someone to notice him in the most dramatic way: a rescue. How luxurious it would be, he could have thought, to have your father's powerful hands snatch you from deadly water, pull you up and return you to the shore where your family is waiting for you. Then they would recognize how valuable you are. You wouldn't be ignored after that. Every day you would be loved the way you deserve.
~ Adam Davies
My dad smelled sort of like mustard, which is probably due to the fact that in the bed I also discovered a thing of Hellmann's. I wanted to grab it and squirt it in his eyes, but I couldn't reach it.
~ Adam Rapp
Scottish Play Doe was born at 4:13 a.m. on September 6th. The ink was barely dry on his father's new tattoo.
~ Adam Rex
The best thing a father can do for his son is love his mother.
~ Adriana Trigiani
the Son's, love is greater than the sum of the world's sin and how the Father cannot resist this love and lets love reign at the judgment in place of ordinary justice.
~ Adrienne von Speyr
She thought of how she had never sat and had a long conversation with her father because he, too, refused to talk about himself. "Someone else should speak instead," he said. "If I don't speak, it means someone else will," which did not always turn out to be true.
~ Aimee Bender
The lawless are the ones to scorch, rather than the just. The lawless work alone; the righteous work amongst their flock. Do the will of our Father; we all come from Him! Our Father is sublime; His will is beneficent. He has watched over you so you may find peace.
~ Alan Jacobs