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Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a necessity — Henry B. Eyring

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

When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy. — Bertrand Piccard

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children. — Johann Hari

My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year. — Amar'e Stoudemire

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 have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does. — Stephen Sondheim

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

It's a little girl named anna, and she doesn't know if she's ready to say good-bye to a father she's never really said hello to. — Pamela Ribon

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly. — Lawrence Welk

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that. — Dwight Howard

My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be. — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Family doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have a mother, a father, a little brother, and an older sister. — Bindi Irwin

It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools! — E.D.E.N. Southworth

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

Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you ... (Taken from a farewell video from a dying father to his infant daughter on dating) — Randy Pausch

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

When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.' — Jan Hutchins

After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride. — Evan Esar

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it. — Larry McMurtry

My father was absent and he was a hero to me. — Greta Scacchi

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

Not a desire, act, wish, or thought does the Holy Ghost indulge in contrary to that which is dictated by the Father — Brigham Young

I pray Father that the work of my hands would be a blessing to all who I come into contact with. — Jennifer Allwood

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor. — David Alan Grier

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father. — Greg Norman

When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week. — Jill Lepore

My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that. — Ziggy Marley

My last name is Wellsley, but a lot of people say it's Lowendowski, which is my mother's last name, and I had it changed to my father's when I was 18. — Cory Wells

Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married. — Cicely Tyson

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. — Adam Sandler

Tell your father I never wanted to be a rose, only ever a night-scented gilliflower, and his moon was my sun. — Sylvie Grohne

A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father. — Glenn Wheeler

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 — Hermann Hesse

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots. — Juliet Stevenson

Don't talk to me like that! I am your mother! Oh, God the Father, I have raised a monster! — Carlos Malvar

To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled. — Sam Riley

I'd love to have a great relationship with my father. And unfortunately ... I don't. — Angelina Jolie

One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity. — Jeff Raikes

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times. — Camille Paglia

I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance. — Kirk Douglas

I feel so blessed to be alive and so blessed to have to have a father that loves me no matter how much wrong I do in this world. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

My father used to brag that I wasn't a ham, I was the whole pig. — Jim Carrey

My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor. — Ruth Reichl

I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids. — Kenyon Martin

Everything they do, from smiling to crying, feels like a blessing. Being a father feels amazing. This has been the most spiritual moment in my life. — Ricky Martin

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness. — Jim Rohn

I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!' — Emo Philips

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

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 think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation. — Ann Curry

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 love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on. — Jared Kushner

Think Jesus taught us that we have a Father who loves us more than we know, and if we could sort that out we would know how to treat each other. — Wayne Jacobsen

I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family. — Ricky Martin

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies. — Red Auerbach

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family. — Guy Kawasaki

I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time. — Eva Longoria

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

Do you ever just want to beat the hell out of the woman?" Suzanne asked. Father Stearns released a heavy, much put-upon sigh. "Every day of my life. — Tiffany Reisz

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused. — Guy Pearce

Father, look upon us in Your goodness and kindness, we pray as a church. Help us to love each other. — Alistair Begg

My father belonged to a Jewish social club. — Maurice Sendak

Your daughter's coming of age, you ought to let her see the world a little. — Susumu Katsumata

I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission. — Michael Johnson

My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living. — Kevin Kwan

For a child, being a child comes naturally. It is
relatively simple. But for an adult to become a father, it is quite another story. — Anupam Sibal

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge. — Alexandre Dumas

The finest achievements are those of the pen ... To me God the Father is a writer. — Leslie Caron

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

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. — Anais Nin

True faith has no eyes, no ability to see. Instead, the Father left us with the most precious little grain - a tiny little thing - in a mustard seed. — Ursula Denise Walker

She had come to believe that if her father had wanted a docile daughter, he should never have allowed her access to the ocean. — Alice Hoffman

Dooku chose his next words carefully. "Qui-Gon returned from Tatooine with a former slave boy. According to the boy's mother, the boy had no father. — James Luceno

Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in. — Peter Fonda

The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence - Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon. — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became a hand-me-down to me. — Bre Pettis

If I had shown half as many dangerous tendencies when I was a boy, my father would have apprenticed me to a greengrocer, of that I'm very sure, — Samuel Butler

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is. — Alexa Ray Joel

When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love. — A. N. Wilson

Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish. — Amor Towles

a daughter should
not have to
beg her father
for a relationship — Rupi Kaur

Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built. — David Johansen

Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our four-room apartment and read aloud. — Jim Trelease

Hyrtacides pummeled his thighs and groaned and bit his lip and said: "O Father Zeus, you, even you, turn out to be a liar." [bk.12] — Homer

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

You killed my father," he snorted in a basso profundo rumble. "Prepare to die!" "Inigo Montoya? Is that you? — Kevin Hearne

People who've never gone hunting have a tendency to look down on hunters and act like they're out killing Bambi's father. — Patty Hearst

You are who God says you are. Spiritually alive. Heavenly positioned. Connected to the Father. A billboard of mercy. An honored child. — Max Lucado

Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child. — Rokia Traore

Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools. — David Soul

Lobola ("bride price") is a retired broke father's last hope to paying off his debts. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one ... Then I thought he was a genus. — Mark Twain

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. — Donald Miller

I can but pray the Father o' a' to haud his e'e upon her, an' his airms aboot her, an' keep aff the hardenin' o' the hert 'at despises coonsel! — George MacDonald

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it. — Karl Kraus

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby. — George Bernard Shaw

Being a father is a choice. Staying true to fatherhood is a duty. — Joan Ambu

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

I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father. — Pat Conroy