Quotes about father
father handle loved
I loved my father so much and couldn't handle what she was doing to him.
father four months raising relatives role six substitute wonderful wrenching
The (Miami) relatives say it would be wrenching to him to take him from the home, but four months is no substitute for six years for a father who had such an important role in raising such a wonderful little boy, Janet Reno
father risk safe
What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly. Natasha Richardson
father cutting vaccines
When my father died of AIDS, I knew I had to do everything in my power to prevent others from going through what he endured. I support AmFAR which provides funds for cutting edge AIDS research so we can find a vaccine and a cure.
father conservative rich
It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher. Nancy Reagan
father dying ashes
Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes. Mordecai Richler
father want trumpets
You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from. Miles Davis
father rich-family way
There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way. Marat Safin
father squares heaven
Our Father in Heaven does not wish us to cower. He does not want us to wallow in our misery. He expects us to square our shoulders, roll up our sleeves, and overcome our challenges. Joseph B. Wirthlin
father yesterday-and-today forever
We see ourselves as yesterday and today. Heavenly Father sees us as forever.
father commitment blessing
One of the great blessings of the restored gospel is the privilege of entering into sacred covenants with our Father in Heaven-covenants made binding by virtue of the holy priesthood. When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage-in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments.
father sick listening
If you feel that Heavenly Father is not listening to your petitions, ask yourself if you are listening to the cries of the poor, the sick, the hungry, and the afflicted all around you.
father perspective principles
As we look for humor, seek for the eternal perspective, understnd the principle of compensation, and draw near to our Heavenly Father, we can endure heardship and trial.
fathers-day men mean-people
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? Joseph Addison
father parent theatre
My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know. Josef Albers
father glasses house
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.
father son punishment
I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others. Jose Rizal
father phones know-me
My father knows me better than anyone. He can tell me over the phone what I'm doing wrong. Jorge Posada
father next-day feelings
Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly. Jorge Luis Borges
father book son
My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons. Jonathan Swift
father good-woman cows
Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.
father body checks
To distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body. Kelley Armstrong
father use want
Did you use a chainsaw?" Joey said. "I seem to recall you like chainsawa." "There wasn't a power outlet." Clay turned to me. "That's what I want for Father's Day, darling. A gas powered chainsaw.
father racing
My father instilled in me a love for racing. Kurt Busch
father thinking people
I understand that actors lose their looks, they change over time, but people don't lose their talent. I think that, as people get older and the people who make the decisions get older, they don't like hiring people much older than them because it reminds them of their fathers, and they don't like telling people older than them what to do. It makes them uncomfortable. I think that happens a lot. Kurt Fuller
father blood want
My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me. Kurt Cobain
father boys strange
The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them. Khaled Hosseini
father flames knives
I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread maker. He'd carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he'd pull for us from the tandoor's roaring flames. At the end of the month, my father paid him for the number of notches on the stick. That was it. No questions. No ID.
father
My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.
father conversation polite
Polite Conversation 'Tis happy for him, that his father was before him.
father love-you writing
Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am writing you this letter, or what this letter is supposed to be about, but I am writing it nonetheless, because I love you very much and trust that you have some good purpose for having me write this letter. I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love. Your father Jonathan Safran Foer
father book giving
Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book he tried to give it away to someone who would love it.
father water faces
In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so on, reflecting backward to the beginning of time, to the face of God, in whose image we were created.