Quotes About Reflection

People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"

I remember my father saying that you're about to awaken when you dream that you're dreaming.

Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.

When I'm walking with my father through the woods, and we reach a place where you see so far that your ego suddenly shrinks because you are so touched by the dimension of your surroundings.

Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.

I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.

I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

When I was a boy I was my father.

It's interesting to be playing a father who's on the other side because that's not my world and not where I came from.

Father Jude Nnorom also criticized his church leaders, saying the simple lifestyle followed by Pope Francis should challenge African bishops to ask themselves.

I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.

I have become my own father.

Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.

When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.

You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.

I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

My father used to say that stupid people think. (I really don't agree with him!)

Ehe, 24 hours have gone from my father dead. It was yesterday, he suicided yesteday in the morning. Even and more than 24 hours!

Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.

When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.

I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.

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.