Even now, I found it difficult to believe that my father could or might be dying. He had always been a strong man, a good leader. No one had ever seen him with his head bowed in despair or defeat, no one had ever seen him slump in resignation, nor ha...
Every faculty you have, your power of thinking or of moving your limbs from moment to moment, is given you by God. If you devoted every moment of your whole life exclusively to His service you could not give Him anything that was not in a sense his o...
Robert Thorn: What do you know about my son? Father Brennan: Everything. Robert Thorn: And what is that? Father Brennan: I saw its mother. Robert Thorn: You saw my wife. Father Brennan: I saw its mother. Robert Thorn: You are referring to my wife! Fa...
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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.
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.
We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)
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.
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...
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
I wonder where love really is. Good feelings. Happiness. They're someplace, I know. I feel that. But without Father and Mother, how do I get there?
Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art. And that's where they pretty much parted company. Father... anything that was abstract would to him automatically be not ver...
Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.
My mother was a good Catholic -- she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic.
You really are like him, your father." "I can't tell whether you think that's good or bad." "What does it matter? It's simply true.
I think good advice for a father to give to his only son would be, "Don't make the same mistake I made with your mother. Remember to pull out.
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband.
I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am lucky that I have such a good image of family life - my father and mother are still in love, still happy.
My father was a very good golfer and he got me started early. My grandfather played, too. It was just something that the Kroft family did. I kind of grew up on the golf course.
Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1...
