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Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.
If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just needs to be there.
I don't mind if, according to the Law of Evolution, my grand grand grand etc. father is a monkey,but I do mind if he is a hyena or a jackal!
What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.
Being a father is certainly a task. But the best one that I could ever ask for. Being home, being with the family, that's what it's about...
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
For Father's Day, my kids always give me a bottle of cologne called English Leather. It's appropriate! To them I always smell like a wallet.
Before my mother died, she made me promise to do everything that could be done to make sure my father was not left alone after she was gone.
I get sort of short with people and start grumbling and clearing my throat - in honor of my father - when I'm impatient. It's very charming.
I always thought I would have boys, but as a father, when your kids are born and they’re healthy and happy, that’s the most important thing.
Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.
My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.
There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.
After one is right with God and pleases God, the next most important thing in all the world is to be right with one's own father and mother.
I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it.
I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.
Come with me to the Winged Isle- Northern father's Western child Where the Dance of Ages is playing still through far marches of Acres Wild.
Our salvation is not in some father or human instruments. It is sad to see people so blinded, worshiping the creature more than the Creator.
The Founding Fathers set up a system that heavily relied upon self-reliance and competition, with only a small dose of government intrusion.
There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all the future failures of his life on you.
Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.
Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a female can enjoy. A father shares in that experience, knowing that he caused it to happen.
I guess I'm like any other concerned father, except that nobody else's son guns a cycle over 17 pickups without holding on to the handlebars.
The Our Father contains all the duties we owe to God, the acts of all the virtues and the petitions for all our spiritual and corporal needs.
As you love His children, Heavenly Father will guide you, and angels will assist you.You will be given power to bless lives and rescue souls.
I was really into classifieds for awhile. I'm a big negotiator. My father owned a car dealership when I was younger... it's just in my blood.
My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.
Jesus came to save souls in his fathers name with love and only love that is why he turned up as a man, so why can't we see his real message?
One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife
My father and I, we finally saw each other eye to eye and I think he's seeing me as a man, and I'm seeing him as the father he's always been.
When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.
Women often use large fake breasts like a gun, pointing the weapon at you in an attempt to garner the attention their father never gave them.
My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who had no sense of humour.
A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied.
Every morning when I wake and every night when I go to sleep, I'm thinking about what I can do to become a better father and a better person.
This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
I grew up in this Southern Baptist atmosphere, and my mother and father were both, I guess you would say, academics. They were both teachers.
Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.
You see, it's one thing to accept Him as Lord, another to recognize Him as Savior - but it's another matter entirely to accept Him as Father.
My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.
I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.
As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?
O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.
I never thought I had to forge a family, but it felt the most natural thing that ever happened to me - meeting someone and becoming a father.
With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.
Working with my father [Stephen Hawking ] is a great thrill - he has the amazing ability to hold enormous amounts of information in his head.
I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.