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“Being a dad is quite rewarding and even magical at times. It is our greatest chance to do something right in our lives that will keep making the world a brighter place even generations after we are...”
“I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?”
“Sigmund Freud, the father of psychiatry and an atheist, theorized that ones attitude toward ones father largely shaped ones attitude toward God.”
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
“DESTINY (Determined Effort So Tanacious It Negates Yuck)”
“Dad had once said, Trust your mind, Rob. If it smells like shit but has writing across it that says Happy Birthday and a candle stuck down in it, what is it?Is there icing on it? he'd said.Dad had ...”
“Father always said that money doesnt grow on trees. Well, time doesnt grow on trees either.”
“Sometimes we wait too long for the forgiveness of our fathers.”
“I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist. I never imagined how hu...”
“Did my father talk to me? It's true, he didn't say a lot to me, but I knew what had to be done. No need for big speeches. He taught me the fundamentals of our religion: My son, Islam is simple: you...”
“He wanted a father, and for the same reason, he wanted to be a father.”
“This was the first time I noticed it, the inevitable space between father and man.”
“That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.”
“We have a dilemma, then, Finnikin said fiercely. Because I prayed that you would grow old and hold my children in your arms as you held me. My prayers have not been answered yet, Trevanion. So whos...”
“My father couldn't warm my frozen hands.”
“His client needs him, he says. Needs him? But isnt he needed at home?”
“I love" is a door girls slam in their fathers' faces.”
“[Eddie] wondered if every criminal saw himself as the hero of his own story and if every thankless son was convinced he'd been mistreated by his father.”
“Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....”
“The monsters are gone.""Really?" Doubtful."I killed the monsters. That's what fathers do.”
