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Quotes About Paternal

As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name.
~ Connie Chung
Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.
~ Mitch Albom
You are the father of earthly time.
~ Mitch Albom
Children came running with their mothers' scissors, or the carving knife, or the paternal razor, or anything else that lacked an edge (except, indeed, poor Clifford's wits) that the grinder might apply the article to his magic wheel, and give it back as good as new.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The search for, and quite often assumed discovery of some paternal-like God or a testy senior after the fashion of Jehovah, frequently has its origins in an adolescent rejection of the father.
~ Israel Regardie
My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
~ Pat Conroy
Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!
~ Luke Wilson
you can bet who your dad will like best.
~ Kristin Hannah
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
~ Gertrude Stein
What you inherit from your father must first be earned before it's yours.
~ Goethe
...years of quiet bliss To me, fast-rooted on paternal land, Mated, yet childless. He had journeyed far Beyond the borders of my life...
~ Bayard Taylor, "First Evening"
Trouble is, I feel too paternal towards you, you son of a bitch." "That's the trouble with all you white bastards.
~ James Baldwin
My dad always had very high standards for me, from day one.
~ Doug McMillon
Fear was my father, Father Fear.His look drained the stones.
~ Theodore Roethke
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.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
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.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
~ Gertrude Stein
Something his father once said comes back to him: the shelves around him are not just book holders but the iron skeleton of the building itself, holding the library upright.
~ Celeste Ng
Then they went up the steps of the neighbouring Saint George's Church, and went up to the altar, where Daniel Doyce was waiting in his paternal character. And there was Little Dorrit's old friend who had given her the Burial Register for a pillow; full of admiration that she should come back to them to be married, after all. And
~ Charles Dickens
Then they went up the steps of the neighbouring Saint George's Church, and went up to the altar, where Daniel Doyce was waiting in his paternal character. And there was Little Dorrit's old friend who had given her the Burial Register for a pillow; full of admiration that she should come back to them to be married, after all.
~ Charles Dickens
My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.
~ Emily VanCamp
Fogelson abused us like a stepfather.
~ Charles Portis
Paternal Grandfather Remember the simple rule: you are to your father as your father is to your grandfather. Therefore, if you are male and terrified of your father, you should be exponentially more terrified of your grandfather. There are other issues related to your Earthling grandfather that are beyond the scope of this volume.
~ Charles Yu