Father quotations

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◆ He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

- Jonathan Safran Foer99

◆ I've only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority.

- Trenton Lee Stewart98

◆ Not only am I not my dad's favorite child—I'm his only child.?

- Jarod Kintz98

◆ When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

- William Shakespeare98

◆ In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

- Jodi Picoult98

◆ Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake.

- Donald Miller98

◆ Now you look here. All your father ever dreamed of for you was to do something you loved in life. He didn't care about fancy qualifications or fancy clothes or cars, just that you were both happy and fulfilled. He was so excited about your dreams for a career.

- Hazel Gaynor98

◆ I drift off for a while. I don't know how long, but when I open my eyes, the Oscars are still on and Alex tells me that Sid has gone and this makes me a little sad. Whatever the four of us had is over. He is my daughter's boyfriend now, and I am a father. A widower. No pot, no cigarettes, no sleeping over. They'll have to find inventive ways to conduct their business, most likely in uncomfortable places, just like the rest of them. I let him and my old ways go. We all let him go, as well as who we were before this, and now it's really just the three of us. I glance over at the girls, taking a good look at what's left.

- Kaui Hart Hemmings98

◆ A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

- Angela Carter98

◆ There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is.

- André Gide98

◆ Your father is the only God. You can also become god but you must follow a simple rule and let that rule be made up of love.

- Santosh Kalwar98

◆ I became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not that I was Christian – I'd been an atheist since I was five. But my father, a Congregational minister, had some sympathy with the idea that the Jews had killed Christ. But any indoctrination was offset by my discovery of the concentration camps, of the Final Solution. Whilst the term 'Holocaust' had yet to enter the vocabulary I was overwhelmed by my realisation of what Germany had perpetrated on Jews. It became a major factor in my movement towards the political left. I'd already read 'The Grapes of Wrath' by John Steinbeck, the Penguin paperback that would change my life. The story of the gas chambers completed the process of radicalisation and would, just three years later, lead me to join the Communist Party.

- Phillip Adams98

◆ The way Magnus' breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he'd said his father's name.

- Cassandra Clare98

◆ It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

- Friedrich Schiller98

◆ Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by the influence of their characters and general self-made brands. Leadership is defined by the virtues of one's behaviour.

- Israelmore Ayivor98