Father Quotes
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How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?
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My father was in the military, so I was in Okinawa.
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My father and mother had tremendous integrity, and obviously that affected me.
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Far from being the father of jihad, Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of his closest companions because he was determined to effect a reconciliation with Mecca.
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I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.
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It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
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I was at my father's office, and I'd be in the back of his office, building Lego skyscrapers, as he was negotiating million-dollar deals.
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I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others.
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My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
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Our Heavenly Father is pleased when we don't compromise our faith and principles in times of desperation.
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Most people don't remember the guy from 'The Real World.' They know the guy who is a professional, a father, and a friend that gives great advice.
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Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.
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As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think it's just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories.
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I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.
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But you say, 'by obedience to another he loses his liberty.' How then is it that children suffer the orders of their father and mother, and pupils the injunctions of their instructors?
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Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.
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As long as we see church life as a meeting we’ll miss its reality and its depth. If the truth were told, the Scriptures tell us very little about how the early church met. It tells us volumes about how they shared life together. They didn’t see the church as a meeting or an institution, but as a family living under Father.
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And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children.
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I know when my father travelled 5,000 miles to make his home in Ireland, I doubt he ever dreamed that his son would one day grow up to be its leader.
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Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's gilded son. Your father can't buy you a good frontside hack.
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President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all.
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My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.
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I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
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When you look at my father's works, he systematically dated everything. He also wanted to document what he knew would be the work of the century.
