Quotes About Patriarch

Calling Batman 'the Dark Knight' is like calling Papa Smurf 'the Blue Patriarch':you're not fooling anyone.

I've always been into stand-up, and I always wanted to be a comic because it was like the dream job as a kid, and my brother, being the patriarch, he paved the way.

This expression of ours, "Father of a family."

I was typecast in 'Bonanza.' NBC officials - didn't realize this for about a year - had seen me in a 'Wagon Train' as a patriarch with a son. So when we started 'Bonanza,' they had me playing the father as a 65- year-old.

Being the patriarch means having to exercise discipline every waking moment, and that includes the second you wake up.

I remember 'Resurrection Boulevard.' It was on for such a brief moment, but they were trying to do a good, Latino, Mexican-American family with a patriarch.

Ron Howard is the family patriarch. When he gave orders, directions, or suggestions to family members, they were not to be questioned. It was considered wrong to disagree with him.

The Great Way is not difficult for those not attached to preferences. When neither love nor hate arises, all is clear and undisguised. Separate by the smallest amount, however, and you are as far from it as heaven is from earth. —Seng-ts'an, Third Patriarch of Zen

The book of Jubilees states that Enoch, the early patriarch, 'was the first one from among the children of men that are born on the Earth to learn writing and the knowledge of wisdom—and he wrote the signs of heaven'. These signs (from the Table of Destiny) are described as being the 'science of the Watchers', which had been carved in a rock in distant times, and Enoch

Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her.

When the father is no longer an overbearing patriarch the son looks everywhere for the law - and finds no lawgiver.

Small wonder that the gibe of an eighteenth-century Armenian banker that 'you Greeks change your patriarch more often than your shirt' struck home uncomfortably.

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family. Very boring, Emerson.

One patriarch suggested that the things mentioned in most blessings are not the mundane or typical life occurrences but, instead, "the outstanding things which might happen."[1]

If the patriarch makes promises under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit—and by his ordained authority—you can rest assured, those promises will come to pass.

The stake patriarch's responsibility is simply to reveal to you bits and pieces of the Father's blessing you received before you left your heavenly parents to come here to mortality.

Rather, your informal conversation with the patriarch prior to receiving your blessing is intended to accomplish a couple of things. It gives the patriarch a chance to get a feel for you and your spirit. It also provides him with an opportunity to instruct you regarding patriarchal blessings and to let you know what is about to happen. It can also serve to help you to get comfortable with him prior to receiving your blessing.

If worthy, there is a oneness that is to exist between the patriarch and God, who speaks to and through him during the act of the laying on of hands.

Thus, the patriarch is simply a surrogate—a stand-in—for God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. His hands upon you are God's hands, and his words spoken to you are God's words.

Allow me to introduce myself. I am Thaddeus Osbert, son of Kenelm Osbert, protector of the House of Kane.

I mean being a knight," she said."Was it worth it?" The drama, the heartache, the stress? The friendships, the conspiracies, the pranks, the bonding ... Was it worth it?Oh, yeah.But then her words sunk in. Was. Past tense. For I was no longer an active knight of Rose & Grave.I was a patriarch.

So, fill me in, what's been going on here?" "All kinds of scandal," Clarissa said. "Amy almost drowned, Demetria is going to beat up a patriarch's wife, our room was trashed by conspiracy theorists, Dragon's Head broke into the tomb in Connecticut, and Jenny has a crush on Harun." "Do not!" Jenny said. "In other words," said Demetria. "The usual." Odile laughed. "Man, I love this society.

I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge.

Most of the Streltsy were simple Russians, living by the old ways, revering both tsar and patriarch, hating innovation and opposing reforms.