Quotes of: Father-time Keyword

My main nurturing instinct toward children is mild sadism--picking them up and threatening to drop them--which is why I am a good uncle but would make a poor father.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Cheyenne: You know, Jill, you remind me of my mother. She was the biggest whore in Alameda and the finest woman that ever lived. Whoever my father was, for an hour or for a month - he must have been a happy man.

Once Upon a Time in the West

If we reward our children for doing the right things, or discipline for intentionally doing the wrong things, then we might be viewed as doing the right thing. On the other hand, we (or parents) might not fully grasp the right thing—as the “right...

A Father and Future Felon

He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?' The King replied, 'It was caused by your good fate and my bad fate. It was the fault of the Greek gods, who with their arrogance, encouraged me to march ...

The Histories

There is a rustle of dead leaves. Dried sap, a branch crack, the whirring teeth of Mr. Omaru's saw. My father--my real father--is a limb that got axed off the family tree a long time ago now. My mother coughs and cleans phantom juices off her silver ...

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

Even bullying was important to Wonder Woman, and in Sensation Comics #23 she stopped a gang who were picking on a young boy, showed the head bully the error of his ways and learned about his home situation, spoke to his father about his abusive tende...

Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine

She wanted to punch her father in his snout, but she wouldn’t. He was her father after all. True, a father whose funeral rite she planned to dance at and toast with ale, but her father just the same.

A Tale Of Two Dragons

Father Leary: I didn't realise you hated me that much. Father James Lavelle: I don't hate you, at all. Father Leary: Then, why? Father James Lavelle: It's just you have no integrity. That's the worst thing I could say about anybody.

Calvary

We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.

Lord Mountbatten

Father: [Elsa has just discovered the true nature of the camp] Elsa I was sworn to secrecy. Mother: From your own wife? Father: I took an oath upon my life, do you understand? Elsa you believe in this too. You want this country to be strong... Mother...

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Pope John XXIII

grappling with some small understanding of this place, this time, we're in" my poem "In a BishopsWood Clearing

Following Father

My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

Lady Gaga

Kiss me one last time Skye... before I die. I want to enter heaven with the taste of you on my lips.

Sins of the Father

Maybe not. But maybe that's how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.

The Sleeping Night

We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father.

Janet Reno

Study the sky but never love it,” Father had told Astraia and me a thousand times. “It is our prison and the symbol of our captor.

Cruel Beauty

I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

Phil Collins

My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

Val Kilmer

My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one.

Jim Beaver