Father Quotes
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But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray fro them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
jesus christ— The Gospel of Matthew 5:44 (KJV)
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
O my father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
jesus christ— 26:42 (KJV).
father in Heaven, whenthethoughtof Thee wakesinour hearts, let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
— Journal entry (translated by Alexander Dru,1938).
Every plant, which my heavenly father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
jesus christ— The Gospel of Matthew 15:13–14 (KJV).
What is the character of a family to an hypothesis? my father would reply.
Laurence Sterne— 1759-67 Tristram Shandy, bk.1, ch.21.
[E]veryone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
jesus christ— 19:29
There was a frightful, appalling row. As a matter of fact the Pope told us all to go to hell. He threatened to silence father Fahrt.
Cruise— 1961The Hard Life.
Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad.
john ralston saul— "Freud"
Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
jesus christ— 19:18–19 (KJV).
I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me.
jesus christ— John 14:6.
Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the father: Ye shall have eternal life.
— The Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 31:20.
" Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, that ye may be the sons of your Heavenly father, who makes the sun to shine on the good and on the evil , and the rain to fall on the just and unjust." How monstrous a calumny have not impostors dared to advance against the mild and gentle author of this just sentiment, and against the whole tenor of his doctrines and his life, overflowing with benevolence and forbearance and compassion !
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Quoting Jesus, in an unfinished Essay on Christianity (written 1815; published 1859)
I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork.
— 1939 At the Circus.
"But I can't devote myself entirely to a child," said she; "it may die — which is not at all improbable.""But, with care, many a delicate infant has become a strong man or woman.""But it may grow so intolerably like its father that I shall hate it.""That is not likely; it is a little girl, and strongly resembles its mother."
anne brontë— Ch. XXIII : The Park
He had the haughtiness of Henry the Eighth, without his spirit; the avarice of Henry the Seventh, without his exactions; the indignities of Charles the First, without his bigotry for his prerogative; the vexations of King William, with as little skill in the management of parties; and the gross gallantry of his father, without his goodnature or his honesty:– he might, perhaps, have been honest, if he had never hated his father, or had ever loved his son.
george ii of great britain— Horace Walpole Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second (1847) vol. 1, p. 180
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.
babe ruth— As quoted in Baseball as I Have Known It (1996) by Fred Lieb, p. 154
The Inquisitor is the forgiving father, the scientific materialist, and the social engineer. He is the most compassionate, and honest, of politicians; he takes on great burdens of responsibility in order to protect his subjects from ethical doubt. But he also suppresses any attempt to expand their self-consciousness: he is the ‘great simplifier’, the shepherd to a flock of carefree children.
john carroll— p. 153 (Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974))
If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (1613), Act I, scene 4, line 26.
Purandara Dasa of the fitheenth-sixteenth century, who is said to be the father of present day classical Carnatic music, initiated a system of teaching Carnatic music and presented the initial scale of notes to be taught to a beginner. Purandara Dasa was a great devotee given to spending his whole life in meditation on God and singing his praises.
— In "I Want To Be In The Creative Field", 3E (1 November 2009), P.453
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
mark twain
I said one Hail Maryand four Our Fathers, because I preferred the Our father to the Hail Mary and it was longer and better.
Roddy Doyle— 1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
Then the Omnipotent father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.
— Ovid, Metamorphoses, I.
And I am a desert creature. You see me, father? I am a desert creature.
— Who: Liet-Kynes
— Source: Dune
— Notes: Character notices that he is standing above a bubble of carbon dioxide that will eventually become a "blow" and engulf him. He thinks that is something that only desert creatures can sense, and while these are his last thoughts, they are a way of "speaking" to his dead father. He dies when he is swallowed by the blow.
My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.
indira gandhi— Quoted in "Indira's Coup," profile by Oriana Fallaci, The New York Review of Books (September 18, 1975)
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
harper lee— Pt. 1, ch. 11
— Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.
George Bernard Shaw— Eve to Cain, in Pt. I, Act II
The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When our heart is once turned into a conformity with the mind of God. when we feel our will conformed to His will, we shall then presently perceive a spirit of adoption within ourselves, teaching us to say, "Abba, father."
ralph cudworth— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 16.
