539 quotes found
“If there is but one God, then why must blood be shed to prove whose God he is? Does the Father not belong to all of us as we belong to him? Do you think he'll call me a righteous man when I've kill...”
“As for myself, I have found my perfect pattern in Jesus, who said, The Father has not left Mealone, for I always do those things that please Him. I am no longer motivated by personal ambition.I hav...”
“I buried my father in my heart.Now he grows in me, my strange son, my little root who wont drink milk, little pale foot sunk in unheard-of night, little clock spring newly wetin the fire, little gr...”
“Call me a sucker for a man who had a great ass who knows how to bake a macaroni casserole and can tolerate six hours of Sesame Street a day.”
“He promised us that everything would be OK. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be OK. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”
“I quote my father to people almost every day. Part of that is because if you dispense your own wisdom, others often dismiss it; if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and mo...”
“We never get over our fathers, and were not required to. (Irish Proverb)”
“Judgment, then, is not an impersonal, legalistic process. It is a matter of love, and it is something we choose for ourselves. Nor is punishment a vindictive act. God's "curses" are not expressions...”
“It is very easy to be a military strategist, a mercenary, or a king, but much harder to be a father.”
“He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.”
“A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers.”
“No, never regret destroying something written. Some things are best left hidden, especially if they can seriously hurt someone if they are found.”
“He looks a hell of a lot like me, only a fair bit older.”
“My father is the most genial Midwestern guy imaginable, but for him, disaster lurks around every cornerfinancial ruin, squandered health, pyramid schemes, airbags failing to deployso he tends to us...”
“My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my ...”
“Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-...”
“When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school, and she worked at night. She worked very hard to never let someone define h...”
“A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.”
“My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.”
“But the love of adventure was in father's blood.”
