Quotes about father
father personality excess
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess. Robert Morgan
father hands water
He had never missed God or the hope of heaven, but he had dearly wanted confession to rest his mind, Communion to let him touch something beyond Father Krone's dry, shaky hand, and holy water to taste like starlight. Peter S. Beagle
father home boys
Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and somehow we managed to defeat him, even though he was naked and wet and alone--Ender Wiggin is so dangerous and terrifying it was all we could do not to bring two hundred. Orson Scott Card
father ignorance ignorant
I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease...
fathers though
Though guiltless, you must expiate your fathers' sins. Horace
father fathers finger john picture pointing witness
When my father testified at the trial, ... there was a full-page picture of him on the witness stand, pointing his finger at John Gilbert Graham.
father mean knowing
My father cared a lot about me, but he never gave me the satisfaction of really knowing it. Hitting .390 wasn't enough for him. Nothing seemed to be. He was not trying to be mean. He was just seeing to it that I never got self-satisfied, that I worked hard to get the most out of what I had. George Brett
father cities america
After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin? Kurt Vonnegut
father voice trout
Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!
father doubt castles
My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’
father self worry
Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
father school careers
My personal background is actually very unusual for the kind of career I chose. I didn’t meet anyone who had ever done physics in my life. I grew up in the Himalayan forests. My father was a forest conservator, which meant that if I wasn’t in school I was in the forests with him. That has been very largely responsible for my ecological inclinations. Vandana Shiva
father parent movement
The Chipko activists have always been close to my parents, since my father was among the few forestry officials who supported them within the bureaucracy. And I was involved with the Chipko movement in my student days.
father swimming apples
One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasn’t there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.