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My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you weren't home.
Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.
The seasons shall tire and the years grow old, ere they exhaust these words: “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.
Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.
Roger speaking to Brianna: It's too important. You don't forget having a dad." You do remember your father?" No. I remember yours.
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.
What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a human being at all.
Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came upon men.
I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father and she hung up the phone on me.
If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated.
I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.
Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.
If you become a father, you're not doing things for yourself anymore. You're thinking about someone else. And that is not a burden.
My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.
Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.
The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.
They were soul mates, my mother and father. They claimed to adore each other, as if the word 'adore' meant 'argue with ceaselessly.
I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen
Make us eternal truths receive, And practice all that we believe: Give us thyself, that we may see The Father and the Son, by thee.
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
My father was working on his Ph.D. on Danish choral music - the Danish choral music of Carl Nielsen - so over there to do research.
Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.
The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.
When you're gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a great father.'
When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.
There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.
I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.
I've been working since I was 14, and my father, being very conservative, has always been strict about my having a savings account.
I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.
In reality, my father [Pablo Escobar ] always interrupted others to be with his family. My father's priority was always the family.
The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.
Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
My favorite thing about being a father is just seeing my kids grow and do some of the same things that I did when I was a kid, man.
George [Michael], I want your sex, so be my father figure and I will have faith if we have to live hand-to-mouth. The diva himself.
Heavenly Father's commandments are the road map He has given us to return to Him, which is the only way we will be eternally happy.
My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.
My father had a country store and then later, when I was 10 or 12, sold it and bought a farm equipment dealership in nearby Camden.
People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"
Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
The interesting thing for me is to put together all my influences and all my experiences I got through my traveling with my father.
I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
A father who denies a child of his attention is no better than a fully-equipped medic who watches idly as a soldier bleeds to death.
Gar taldin ni jaonyc; gar sa buir, ori'wadaasla. (Nobody cares who your father was, only the father you'll be.) - Mandalorian saying
When I would feel down...I'd have some noodles father prepared, and all the worries I had that day...Poof! They would all disappear.
I baptize you not in the name of the father, but in the name of the devil. (Ego baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli.)
To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
My father is a straight- talking guy. He's always been. He has a history of that in business as a personality for the last 35 years.