Quotes of: Fathering Keyword

My association of jail to high school is probably on the basic similarity of a communicable social-setting. These few settings represent a frame of reference: a somewhat fraternal order (though I never belonged to an actual fraternity) where people c...

A Father and Future Felon

For Blake, the news was as a storm that tore him apart. How dare an enemy soldier hurt his father, how could an enemy soldier kill his father. This just could not have happened. He would have to do something about it. He would have to avenge his fath...

Blake's Story, Revenge and Forgiveness

But when, through the open door of the cross and the name and power of Jesus Christ, I commend myself to the Father's heart, then God cancels all my past, accepts all my present, swears His holy name for my future and the love of God take me over. Th...

The Attributes of God: A Journey Into the Father's Heart

This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there is something unnatural about being older than your father ever got to be. When you can say that at the age of seventeen,...

On the Jellicoe Road

When I was a teenager, most fathers tended to go berserk when I asked their daughters on a date.... I discovered that all fathers go berserk when their daughters start dating. I have to assume this was because all fathers were once teenagers at some ...

Ticket To Hollywood

Didn't you ever have a father yourself? You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.' So I figured it's because I never had a father that I don't want one now. A person can't miss something she never had.

When You Reach Me

When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go bac...

Kiran Desai

We are not called to fight the battles of our fathers with a blind faith. We are called to examine their wars, and moreover, to discern whether their actions were sinful or just. Furthermore, we are called to decide whether to correct the errors of o...

Cristina Marrero

Young John Reilly: Hey, uh, Father. How long did it take him? You know, paintin' the ceiling and all? Father Bobby: Took him about nine years. Young John Reilly: Nine years? Father Bobby: That's right. Young John Reilly: [laugh] For a ceiling? I had ...

Sleepers

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, ...

LeBron James

The house is our father's and the strangers came to kick us out.

Palestinian

What reaches the mother's heart will only reach the father's knees.

Polish

I wish you a beautiful blessed Father’s Day.

Beautiful Quotes

All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.

The Adults

Private lives are more important than public reputations.

The Innocence of Father Brown

But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?

J

Sarcasm is a manifestation of anger, and anger can make you the puppet of your opponents.

Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

Those who look behind will never see beyond.

Walking in the Father's Riches: The Prosperity of Sonship

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

Susana Martinez

In 1991, my father passed away and I went on a spiritual quest. It was a light one, not too terribly deep because I'm not terribly deep, and neither was my father.

Mike Myers

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Lee Iacocca