Quotes About Understanding

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.

Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

right now,I am my father

I dig my father. I wish he could open his eyes and dig me.

In contrast to how my father treated me, I won't hit him, I won't call him evil, I'll give him affection, and I'll pay attention to him.

I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.

Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.

The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.

I have become my own father.

My father and I, we finally saw each other eye to eye and I think he's seeing me as a man, and I'm seeing him as the father he's always been.

Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.

My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding.

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.

People can't think when their minds are clouded with fear.