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Father, you left me, but I never left you. — John Lennon

If I could choose from all the fathers in the world, Dad, I'd choose you! — John Walter Bratton

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. — John Leguizamo

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion. — John F. Kennedy

Never let something so unworthy define you. — Katherine Reay

Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet reading lamp. — John Steinbeck

I was always nervous to play my father's [John Lennon's] songs. — Sean Lennon

Your father's zeal for books will be one of the last desires which will quit him, Abigail observed to John Quincy — David McCullough

Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow? — John Milton

Jesus said when you pray say "Our Father which art in heaven." He did not say "Our Judge which art in heaven". #grace #gospel — John Paul Warren

I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. John 15:1 — Anonymous

From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two. — John Masefield

God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves. — Saint John Chrysostom

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting. — John Green

That was a time when a man had the right to be burried by his own son an' a son had the right to burry his own father. — John Steinbeck

My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty. — John Cullum

My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God? — John Stuart Mill

I thought of Otto Frank not being a father anymore, left with a diary instead of a wife and two daughters. — John Green

Our Father who art in nature ... must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. — John Steinbeck

We do not know ourselves aright,
Until we have the Father's light.
We think we know ourselves and groan,
Until we know as we are known — John Piper

I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father. — Esai Morales

You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right. — John Updike

My favorite Elton John song is "Daniel"; my son is named Daniel and he's partly named after my wife's father, but also partly named after that song. — Steven Drozd

I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge. — John Sutter

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife. — John Lithgow

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England. — William John Wills

For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend. — John Burnham Schwartz

His father knew every place in the boy where a word would fester. — John Steinbeck

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son. — John Phillips Marquand

The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was. — John Irving

On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford. — John Sulston

Grace always and only consists of what will help someone come home to the Father. — John Ortberg

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer. — John Sebastian

He has his father's distinctive good looks, like a badly made crash test dummy. He also smells like a funeral parlor, but that may be incidental. — John Connolly

My father had the most amazing operatic voice, so I have a soft spot for that. — Olivia Newton-John

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones. — John Milton

Jesus responded to them, "My Father is still working, and I am working also." John 5:17 — Beth Moore

Let me go to the house of the Father. — Pope John Paul II

Dad, because you are my father it's been easy to believe in God. — John Walter Bratton

It isn't really much of a mystery, this occasional need I have to comfort my father. I did something terrible to his son once. — John Darnielle

Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started. — John Fante

What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips? — Saint John Chrysostom

All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility. — John Cassian

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno. — John McCain

Look at how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called God's children. 1 John 3:1 — Beth Moore

For You are holy, our God, and to You we give glory, to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever... — John Chrysostom

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure. — John Lennon

We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation. — John Eldredge

what great love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! (1 John 3:1) — Stephen A. Gammon

My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him. — Linda Evans

The reason that people do not have a rich, beautiful faith is that their spirit is denied the privilege of communion and fellowship with the Father. — John G. Lake

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead. — John C. Hawkes

I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention. — Sean Lennon

[M]y father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it. — John S. Hall

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument. — John Mortimer

I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break. — John Adams

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. — John William Fletcher

A father is someone who can't get on the phone, in the bathroom or out of debt. — John Walter Bratton

Time fell short of seconds and words fell short of breath as they all realized that Abraham Lincoln, friend, father, and leader was no more. — John C. Berry

He dreaded the sound of his father's car in the driveway at night, knowing he would have to protect his mother, and probably be beaten in the process. — John Glatt

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect. — John Caudwell

One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to write a book about my father.' — John Burnside

My father was very outwardly religious. — John McGahern

What, at Peace with the Father, and at War with the (His) Children! It cannot be. — John Flavel

My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers. — John Lewis

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. — John Malkovich

Make each day your masterpiece. - JOSHUA WOODEN, father of John Wooden — Mark Sanborn

My father died in '97. But at least he lived until 93, so he saw my success. — John Catsimatidis

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. — John R. Rice

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. — John Cassian

It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure. — John Lennon

I'm their sole parent, and there is nothing more important than being the best father I can be. — John Edwards

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever. - John 14:16 kjv — Gary Chapman

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. — John Jeremiah Sullivan

Has a new father and a new life. I cannot — John Grisham

Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John. — Jim Gaffigan

Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself. — John Hartford

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. — John Major

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. — John Ruskin

Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way. — John Steinbeck

I suspect that I am the result of particularly weak conception on the part of my father. His sperm was probably emitted in a rather offhand manner. — John Kennedy Toole

The only 'if' the Gospel knows is this: 'if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.' (1 John 2:1) — Tullian Tchividjian

My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was. — John Burnside

God is our father, but even more is God our mother. — Pope John Paul I

We are the sum of the Father's love for us — Pope John Paul II

Wishes father thought, but they don't breed evidence. — John Galsworthy

Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all. — John Milton

Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; - but the Father, for love!'181 — John R.W. Stott

Noah St. John, bad buy of rock and concerned father of imaginary daughters. Hell hath frozen over and become an ice ring. — Nalini Singh

I promise just to serve two terms. Republicans do it differently. They just have the son repeat the father's whole first term. — John F. Kerry

The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you. — John Owen

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up. — Francis Ford Coppola

If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen. — John C. Maxwell

He lied all the time even when there was no need to lie [ ... ] He needed a _history_, a sense of self. [Burnside on his father, p. 22] — John Burnside

He did not so much follow his father's example as his father's vision. — John Taliaferro

I'm a car nut. My father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership. — John Lasseter

My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me. — John Malkovich

Christ descended to us, to bear us up to the Father, and at the same time to bear us up to himself, inasmuch as he is one with the Father. — John Calvin

There aren't many fathers around here ... If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up. — John Redwood

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves. — John Dufresne