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.
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More Father Quotes
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).
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
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).
What is the character of a family to an hypothesis? my father would reply.
Laurence Sterne— 1759-67 Tristram Shandy, bk.1, ch.21.
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"
[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
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
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).
I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me.
jesus christ— John 14:6.
I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork.
— 1939 At the Circus.
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
I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me — to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.
audre lorde— Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
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).
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.
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.
To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The father of Roman Poetry." We must remember how truly Greek he was in his point of view. He set the example for later Latin poetry by writing the first epic of Rome in Greek hexameter verses instead of in the old Saturnian verse. He made popular the doctrines of Euhemerus, and he was in general a champion of free thought and rationalism.
Ruth Martin Brown— About Ennius in A study of the Scipionic circle (1934, p. 26)
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.
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.
" 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 remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it." And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!" And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there." So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work.
toni morrison— As quoted in the New York Times Magazine (11 September 1994)
If my father had a heart attack, it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.
ingrid newkirk— Washington Post, 1983November 13
Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the music. For what has been spoiled by the father can only be made good by a father, just as what has been spoiled by the mother can only be repaired by a mother. The disastrous repetition of the family pattern could be described as the psychological original sin, or as the curse of the Atrides running through the generations.
carl jung— Mysterium Coniunctionis (1955) CW 14: P. 232
No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his father and his God.
thomas gray— 1751Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.125-8,'The Epitaph'.
A choir of angels glorified the hour, the vault of heaven was dissolved in fire. "father, why hast Thou forsaken me? Mother, I beg you, do not weep for me..."
anna akhmatova— This greatest hour was hallowed and thundered
By angel's choirs; fire melted sky.
He asked his Father:"Why am I abandoned...?"
And told his Mother: "Mother, do not cry..."Translated by Tanya Karshtedt (1996)
