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A man doesn't need to be flawless to be a perfect father, but the commitment to his family is a precious responsibility.
I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.
Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.
I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.
If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.
But let the good old corn adorn The hills our fathers trod; Still let us, for his golden corn, Send up our thanks to God!
People who've never gone hunting have a tendency to look down on hunters and act like they're out killing Bambi's father.
I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.
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.
God is our loving Father who loves his children perfectly. So, every part of his Word is an expression of his love to us.
Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.
Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.
The greatest tragedy is a life lived and died without knowing Father God intimately and experiencing His love personally.
My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.
My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!
My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.
Our Father expects you to learn how to obtain that divine help by exercising faith in Him and His Holy Son, Jesus Christ.
My father Big Max told me many years ago that 'anything you are good at will contribute to your happiness'. Great advice.
Heavenly Father and the Savior are grateful that you do your part. They know you, They watch over you, and They love you.
I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.
Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
I'm a big fan of moustaches. I think it's because - and this is not Freudian innuendo at all - my father has a moustache.
My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.
Nothing is more honoring to your heavenly Father than making life decisions based upon what he has claimed about himself.
Everything we have - every blessing, every talent - is a gift from our Father. The only thing that's all ours is our sin.
I like listening to the whole song. Like my father says, "If you can't pick the whole song, then why are you playing it?"
Fatherhood has taught me when it's too quiet my kids are usually sinning. God the Father knows the same. Are you praying?
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian.
I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.
[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.
It must have been the lack of nutrients that gave my father his temper. He is not a sweet man despite a very sweet tooth.
My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.
In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.
I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.
When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?
My father really, really pushed me to excel in a way that I resented for years and then realized had really worked for me.
I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer, and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it.
My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.
My father could look straight ahead but concentrate on something on the very edge of his vision, almost nearly behind him.
Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that.
My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?
My wife's father said if you marry my daughter I'll give you three acres and a cow. I'm still waiting for the three acres.
My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
What matters most is not what I think I am or am not. What matters is what my Father sees in me and what He says about me.