Quotes About Paternal

But how practical, how eminently realistic! said Mr. Scogan. In this farm we have a model of sound paternal government. Make them breed, make them work, and when they're past working or breeding or begetting, slaughter them. Farming seems to be mostly indecency and cruelty, said Anne.

Oh! my little father, Petr' Andréjïtch

I'm born to be a father. And I've been looking forward to this all my life.

Too many women means that men are in a good market position to enforce their preferred reproductive strategy and that strategy is likely to be one that minimizes paternal investment in favor of maternal investment.

it's the paternal instinct, Amory—celibacy goes deeper than the flesh. . . .

One never knows anything about one's father. A father ... is a passageway immersed in the deepest darkness, where we stumble blindly seeking a way out.

and studied the terrain. Twice that morning he had seen unshod hoofprints. There were Apaches around. He walked back to the boy and ate his share of the rabbit while Johnny was brushing the spines from a tuna the way he had shown him earlier. As the boy ate the desert fruit, he thought about how fast the morning had gone, how much he had enjoyed it. And this was the son

He craved the love of a father who seemed too remote and too self-absorbed to attend to his boyish needs.

The same day the young man set forward on his journey, furnished with the three paternal gifts, which consisted, as we have said, of fifteen crowns, the horse, and the letter for M. de Treville—the counsels being thrown into the bargain.

A love as tender as that of a lover for his mistress dwells, undoubtedly, in some paternal hearts toward a son.

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

Glanzman is enigmatic. Half of me is a nice lovable paternal type, the other a hardnose and cunning tummler. Against my better judgment I'll listen to my lovable side." "Let's both listen.

it is father-like love that awakens childlike trust.

To be a father means above all to be at the service of life and growth

For, until men feel that they owe everything to God, that they are cherished by his paternal care, and that he is the author of all their blessings, so that nought is to be looked for away from him, they will never submit to him in voluntary obedience; nay, unless they place their entire happiness in him, they will never yield up their whole selves to him in truth and sincerity.

No one, indeed, will voluntarily and willingly devote himself to the service of God unless he has previously tasted his paternal love, and been thereby allured to love and reverence Him.

Likewise, what grounds He gives us to consider His mercy! When He does not stop showing His mercy to miserable sinners, leading them back to Him by His more than paternal mercy until their obstinacy is broken down by His benefits.

It is now clear that faith is a singular pledge of paternal love, treasured up for the sons whom he has adopted.

We need a father to rage against.

She spoke with a kind of wilted gallantry. I looked at her. She'd leaned her head against the cracked leather seat, and closed her eyes. Without their light and depth in her face, she looked about thirteen. I caught myself up short, recognizing a feeling I'd had before. It started out as paternal sympathy but rapidly degenerated, if I let it. And Mildred had a husband.

Pa?ios meil?s, kaip ir g?l?s, amžius neilgas. Vyro meil? miršta nat?ralia mirtimi santuokoje, o moters meil? dažnai tveriai iki pat galo, virtusi grynai motinišku švelnumu nuvainikuotam savo svajoni? didvyriui.

So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers.

My paternal grandma was a raving Thatcherite, one who had a xenophobic turn of phrase for most proceedings.

Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.