Quotes About Paternal

you need a license to drive, have a dog, or even to fish—but they'll let anyone be a father.

wanted to hear more about Thomas. I wanted to know that he had a good heart, that he had saved someone on the brink, that I could depend on him. I wanted in him all the traits any female would want in the male she chose as the father for her offspring.

Any fool can make a baby, only a man can raise one.

You may not want to be my son, but I cannot help but be your father.

Regardless of what Julian felt for me, there was no denying that what I felt for him was love and trust of a very genuine sort. As my own parents had distanced themselves from me more and more - a retreat they had been in the process of effecting for many years - it was Julian who had grown to be the sole figure of paternal benevolence in my life, or, indeed, of benevolence of any sort. To me, he seemed my only protector in the world.

My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it. "Dad," I said. "Am I a dog?" "Lydia," he said. "I apologize.

I like him and I wonder what I would be like if I had a different father.

Father, are we late enough to kill astronomers?

The illusions of paternal love are perhaps no less poignant than those of the other kind; many daughters regard their fathers merely as the old men who leave their fortunes to them.

Jarrell was not so much a father . . . as an affectionate encyclopedia.

Father's Day: When you get that lethal combination of alcohol and new power tools.

My father has been a rock for me every since.

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.

My father was a lawyer.

Pero yo seguía diciéndole: - Ven a la alcoba a darme un beso -aterrorizado al ver cómo ascendía por la pared el reflejo de la bujía de mi padre, pero utilizando su inminente aparición como un medio de intimidación.

What does the father represent? For Martin Luther, our fathers are godly to us: how we see our fathers has a lot to do with how we see, or don't see, God: for God manifests himself in the father.

Si Dieu me nomme son enfant, faut-il craindre l'appeler Père ?

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Papa loves you with a dying and infernal love," the youngest girl said. "Undying," the eldest girl corrected. "And eternal.

Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.

Bruno tenía razón, el amor paterno era una ficción, una mentira. Una mentira es útil cuando permite transformar la realidad, pensó; pero cuando la transformación fracasa sólo queda la mentira, la amargura y la conciencia de la mentira

Oh, do not make me, by your harsh command, Complain to Heaven you ever were my father; Do not make wretched this poor life you gave me.

and that makes him wish all over again that his dad would stop crying, so he can have a turn.

el sótano; sí, estás en el sótano de la casa paterna, tú eres un niño, sólo has soñado que eras un adulto, un viejo y asqueroso vigilante en París, pero eres un niño y estás en el sótano de la casa paterna (...)