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To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.
Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
I'd like to thank my mother, my father, the Academy. I'm sorry. I was thinking of something else.
A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.
The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it.
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.
Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.
To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, 'I and my Father are One.'
War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding.
My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
My father is an amazing fighter and what he's already accomplished is nothing short of remarkable.
My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I'm not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it.
Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.
Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.
I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.
Camping in the backyard last night for Father's Day! Wrestling, stories, s'mores...it was awesome!
I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.
We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever.
Well, that’s not something you see every day. Go tell your father that Grandma needs the grenades.
You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.
Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!
God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget. Why should I worry?
How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.
My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.
If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.
In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.
I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.
This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.
I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him.
I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.
Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?
Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.
My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.
We've got to have a deep, intimate relationship with the Father if we're going to lead like Jesus.
I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.
My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.
I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits.
I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.
I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.
Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
The only people I owe an apology to are my dead parents. Except my father because he's still alive.