Quotes About Paternal

God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.

He [God] watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me, and consoled me as a father would his son.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me.

I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.

Had he not resembledMy father as he slept I had done 't.

This is my son, mine own Telemachus.

The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.

For someone who'd spent most of his adult life fearful of getting girls pregnant, I thought my unexpected paternal trial was turning out reasonably well.

After all, didn't all fathers in their secret hearts harbor a desire to kill their sons?

After all, didn't all fathers in their secret hearts harbor a desire to kill their sons?

A bright moon can astonish, no matter how many times you have seen it. If you were a child who loved the moon, looking at the moon will remind you of childhood. Fatherless girls may invest the moon with a certain paternal promise. Everyone has a father. A vague story like "Your father died before you were born" may satisfy even a canny child for an unlikely number of years. The truth of your paternity, discovered in adulthood, will make the lie seem retroactively ludicrous.

I'm not allowed to date. My dad said so. Not until I'm, like, 90.

My paternal poppa, Alec, was a taxi driver and swimming coach. He taught all his grandchildren how to swim and loved all kinds of sport.

The only emotion my father expressed with any regularity was anger.

And the testicles of the fathers hang down like old lace

La persona umana ama con entrambe le coscienze, materna e paterna, ad onta del fatto che esse sembrino contraddirsi l'una con l'altra. Se conservasse solo la coscienza paterna diventerebbe dura e disumana. Se conservasse solo quella materna perderebbe la capacità di giudizio e ostacolerebbe se stessa e altri nel loro sviluppo.

My dad used to hear me humming songs while watching television and discovered I have a nice sweet tone which should be further trained and toned.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

with a man. Three children walking stolidly

But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.