I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was pregnant with me.

God is the Father who is full of mercy. God is the Father who is full of comfort. That is the kind of relationship he offers to you.

Every time you get on your knees and pray to God, 'Holy' keeps the respect and reverence while 'Father' brings Him close & intimate.

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well enough.

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.

My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.

[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.

I am my father's daughter. It was not up to me growing up. I was his hunting and fishing buddy, so I've been shooting my whole life.

It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

For the son of man shall come in the glory of His Father, with His angels; and then shall He reward every man according to his works.

I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.

Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.

My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.

Being a godly father requires much perseverance and prayer as we seek God's guidance in being the types of fathers He wants us to be.

My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."

I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.

I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook.

Im lucky that its about fashion and perfume and cosmetics. If my father had owned a tire company, I dont know what I would have done.

The granting of prayer, when offered in the name of Jesus, reveals the Father's love to him, and the honor which he has put upon him.

The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.

I am very comfortable with conflict, be it of the legal or mortal kind. My father was a mediator, a bridge maker. I am a grave maker.

During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.

It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

I saw The Empire Strikes Back the week that it came out. My father was a huge Star Wars fan. And so when it came out, my dad took me.

I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.

Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.

I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a father's joy.

A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new

Struggling in my father's hands, Striving against my swaddling bands, Bound and weary, I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast.

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