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Children should be able to see the Gospel modeled in the way their father loves their mother with a sacrificial love ...
— Alistair Begg
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
Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I say to all fathers - be as good as you can be- because your sons and daughters will follow in your footsteps.
— Duane Chapman
You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you.
— G.K. Chesterton
God is everywhere! the God who framed
Mankind to be one, mighty family,
Himself our Father, and the world our home. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mankind to be one, mighty family,
Himself our Father, and the world our home. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.
— Ziggy Marley
Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.
— Cesare Pavese
I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
— Lawrence Welk
My father was a director, and he used to always tell me, "You should be an actress." When I was 17, he gave me a job so that I'd be in the union.
— Katey Sagal
My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.
— J. C. Watts
It doesn't matter that nobody sees your face or knows your name, my wide eyed child, my father said to me. You know it. You be it.
You are. — Patricia Raybon
You are. — Patricia Raybon
My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.
— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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
What I didn't realize was that I didn't have to be normal--I just had to be me, my father's child, carrying out God's plan.
— Nick Vujicic
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
All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.
— Baha'u'llah
I wanted to emulate my father. I wanted to be as tough as he was. I wanted to do the things that he did. I watched him.
— Arnold Palmer
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
My father was a small-businessman, and if he didn't get up and go to work, there would be no business.
— Hillary Clinton
You can have fun with a son, But you got to be a father to a girl.
— Oscar Hammerstein II
We were not sent by Father in Heaven just to be born. We were sent to endure and return to Him with honor.
— Robert D. Hales
My dad and I hunted and fished together. How could I get angry at this man who took the time to be with me?
— James Dobson
I pray Father that the work of my hands would be a blessing to all who I come into contact with.
— Jennifer Allwood
I've been the type of father who tries desperately to be perfect but doesn't succeed all the time.
— Max Von Sydow
If homes are going to survive, it will be because husbands and fathers again place their families at the highest level on their system of priorities.
— James Dobson
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
Soap?"
"School of America in Paris" he explains. "SOAP".
Nice. My father sent me here to be cleansed. — Stephanie Perkins
"School of America in Paris" he explains. "SOAP".
Nice. My father sent me here to be cleansed. — Stephanie Perkins
Forget Batman: when I really thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wanted to be my dad.
— Paul Asay
That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie
— Diana Gabaldon
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
Our journey was to be a great enterprise of balance. My father, of course, was bringing the Word of God - which fortunately weighs nothing at all.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.
— Ziggy Marley
As he lay on the couch, he reflected that he wanted to be the same kind of father someday.
— Nicholas Sparks
His father was an ass and he is an ass. I imagine sooner than I should like I shall be playing uncle to a litter of asses.
— T.A. Miles
We expect God to be an angry father who demands justice, but through Jesus, He gives us love and grace when we don't deserve it.
— Kyle Idleman
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
I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.
— Arnold Palmer
We need you to be a father who can claim for himself the authority of true compassion.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.
— Loudon Wainwright III
My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'
— Chelsea Clinton
When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.
— Clint Eastwood
Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.
— Dorothy Salisbury Davis
By profession I am a Soldier & take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father.
— Douglas MacArthur
My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.
— Stephen King
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
I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company.
— Denise Morrison
I think of drug dealers like I think of my father - never really there when you want them to be.
— Kris Kidd
My daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat. I might be failing as a father.
— Greg Behrendt
I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
— Laura Linney
I hope you grow up to be as good a mother as your father
— Robert Rankin
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
— Samuel Butler
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
There were some things I needed to learn." "How to be brave?" my father says quietly. "How to be selfless," I say. "Often they're the same thing.
— Veronica Roth
You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.
— Michael Reagan
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
It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.
— Nicole Richie
What thing, in honor, had my father lost,
That need to be revived and breathed in me? — William Shakespeare
That need to be revived and breathed in me? — William Shakespeare
Then maybe Roman will be able to forgive me."
"I believe he will." Father Andrew glanced at Connor. "Can you forgive yourself? — Kerrelyn Sparks
"I believe he will." Father Andrew glanced at Connor. "Can you forgive yourself? — Kerrelyn Sparks
Be careful that you don't give charitable gifts before men to be seen by them, otherwise you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
— Frederick Hoehn
Soaking is also positioning yourself for an encounter with God, to be with Him. You do the positioning, He does the encounter.
— Linda Boone
Jesus came to be with the Father for an interlude before his betrayal, but found hell rather than heaven opened before him, and he staggered.
— William Lane
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
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
My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.
— Sara Maitland
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
Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you.
— N.D. Wilson
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
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
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
— Kent Nerburn
My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'
— Action Bronson
A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.
— Lois Greiman
I suppose I should say something negative about vampires living in sin," Father Markus said, "but that seems to be the least of your problems.
— MaryJanice Davidson
If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.
— Ben Mendelsohn
It's something families could do together. They can be passed on from father to son, or father to daughter.
— Don Williams
The father's role, he says, is to provide the mother with the peace and security she needs to be a good enough mother.
— Massimilla Harris
I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.
— Mike Tyson
I knew I wanted to be a father; I didn't know it was going to be this awesome or that my kid would come out so beautiful and lovely.
— Mike Myers
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 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
If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence
— George MacDonald
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
Father can be the person you most hate and most fear, yes, but deep down you expect that he'll be the one to save you.
— Julianna Baggott
I'm done waiting for someone, even my father, to save me. Today I'm the one who will be doing the saving.
— Pam Bachorz
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