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My father-in-law ... was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death.
— Billy Graham
For many little girls, life with father is a dress rehearsal for love and marriage.
— David Jeremiah
Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.
— Edward Zigler
My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.
— Louise Leakey
When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.
— Edmund Phelps
I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.
— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
For which cause a man will leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife, and the two shall be one flesh',
— Leo Tolstoy
What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.
— William Shakespeare
It would take a while for me not to think of the Greek language as the father who walked out on me
— Deborah Levy
weeks." "Sounds like a good idea. The police may have options for investigating that your father and
— Claire Fogel
I had to be an adult, be a father without a son, so for one last moment I needed to be a son who needed his mother.
— Ruth Ahmed
After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride.
— Evan Esar
I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Maybe it's time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I'm not sure how.
— David Bellavia
It was one thing to have a demon for a parent. It was another thing when your father owned a significant portion of Hell's real estate.
— Cassandra Clare
He was an amazing father. I clutched my memories of him to my heart for so long, but he's a part of the world.
— Jennifer Grant
I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.
— Jean Dujardin
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
The best thing a father can do for his son is love his mother.
— Adriana Trigiani
I cohabited for 20 years with my longtime husband and father of my two now-teen daughters in a stable family household.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
Whatever else a father is in this life - cop, fireman, Indian chief - he provides for his family. He
— Harlan Coben
A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.
— Halldor Laxness
Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."
— Robert Breault
My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she became a stay-at-home mother.
— Siobhan Fallon Hogan
Such a statement would be blasphemous, Majesty," the Holy Father replied, his tone gently reproving. "No man can speak for God.
— Erika Johansen
Tell my father I was abducted by a lucius nymph and pulled to her lair." Styxx"For the record, I resent being called a lucius nymph." Galen — Sherrilyn Kenyon
A temptation is Satan's cheap substitute for the real gifts from heaven the Father has given us.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie
— Diana Gabaldon
You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man's responsibility for the family
— Sunday Adelaja
I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.
— Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
My very revered father, I am beginning to think that - Well, there's little peace in this world for a quiet book-loving man.
— Ellery Queen
We need you to be a father who can claim for himself the authority of true compassion.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
father could hope for in a son.To have
— Colleen McCullough
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.
— Ann Brashares
My father who was always serious has fallen in love with a dog. What can I do but be happy for him?
— Michael Simms
I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companies.
— Martha Stewart
My father, Tommy, who was a trained draughtsman, played for Preston North End in the Finney era. He liked football but did not love it as I do.
— Mark Lawrenson
My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.
— Adam Sandler
I started with capital of about $1,500, a princely sum for a student coming out of college, an amount I borrowed from my father.
— Sunil Mittal
For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions.
— Vladimir Potanin
My father Time is weak and grayWith waiting for a better day;
See how idiot-like he stands,
Fumbling with his palsied hands! — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
— Eddie Cibrian
A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.
— William Watson Purkey
A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons.
— Charles Spurgeon
I am a daughter. My father is an example for me.
— Malala Yousafzai
Sadly, I can't say the same for my Father, who is probably in a different place - Hell.
— Alan Partridge
So that's how you know Donovan. You knew his father."Warren nodded. "Daniel Caine, a fine man. Donovan is too. But he's not the one for you. — Jennifer Estep
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.
— Richard Diebenkorn
Jackson's father said she was built like Marilyn Monroe and had the temperament of Maureen O'Hara. The man was a prophet for sure.
— Carolyn Brown
For a child, being a child comes naturally. It isrelatively simple. But for an adult to become a father, it is quite another story. — Anupam Sibal
Logic itself affirms that a loving Heavenly Father would not abandon His children without providing a way for them to learn of Him.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
Any man who steps between a father and his vengeance asks for death.
— George R R Martin
They carried what was holy within them, for every man was a temple, and every prayer spoken could be heard by our Father above us.
— Alice Hoffman
It's Magic, you see. It's justice you hold. It's vengeance for your father. It's home.
— George R R Martin
God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
— Alexandre Dumas
The search for knowledge and the discovery of a great weapon are virtually one and the same. War is the father of everything.
— Paul Hoffman
There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
— Marat Safin
When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.
— Madeleine L'Engle
My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.
— Kevin Kwan
There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father. The
— Saul D. Alinsky
My father used to be away for months at a time, and he'd never leave any money for food, so my brother and I had to go out and nick it.
— Norman Wisdom
All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.
— Mother Teresa
Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin ... I poked a badger with a spoon.
— Eddie Izzard
My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.
— David Bowie
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.
— Joyce Meyer
Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.
— Edward Norton
At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training.
— Charles Eastman
I will gladly trade his freedom for a father. Have you one to give me?
— George R R Martin
We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.
— Maggie Stiefvater
While I think you were a rotten father and are still a horrid excuse for a person, I appreciate your ability to mix revenge and charity.
— Kate M. Colby
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.
— Chris Hemsworth
I read Stephen King as a junior high schooler. My father introduced me to Stephen King far too young, which I'm very grateful for now.
— Bridget Carpenter
I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.
— David Bailey
I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.
— Guy Kawasaki
What you end up doing," the mechanic says, "is you spend your life searching for a father and God.
— Chuck Palahniuk
I wanted to be respected and to be loved. I longed for a man, like my father, to come and take me away from it all.
— Nicci Greene
You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.
— Madeleine L'Engle
My son has a big Christmas problem - what do you buy for a father who has everything and you're using it?
— Milton Berle
