Father Quotes - Page 13

• If we can just get young people to do the same as their fathers did, that is, wear condoms

  Richard Branson

  People, Condom, Young

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• Father's Day just be Mother's Day the sequel.

  J. B. Smoove

  Mother, Mother's Day, Sequels

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• I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.

  Tom Cruise

  Mother, Husband, Wanted

  "Tom Cruise Talks 'Rock of Ages' and Oprah-gate in his 2012 Playboy Interview". Interview with Michael Fleming, www.playboy.com. June 9, 2017.

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• I remember on Thanksgiving all the kids wanted the drumstick. There were four of us then. Well, today you can go into the supermarket and get 12 drumsticks. Years ago you couldn't do that. So I was sucking on the neck for two years. My mother told me it was the leg, and I believed it. I went to my father and said, Why is my leg always cockeyed? He said, The bird has arthritis.

  Pat Cooper

  Mother, Kids, Years

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• My father was a very humble and down to earth man, and was known for being very honest and trustworthy.

  Wissam Al Mana

  Humble, Men, Earth

  "Janet Jackson 'splits' from husband Wissam Al Mana - five things to know about the billionaire businessman" by James Draper, www.mirror.co.uk. April 9, 2017.

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• [Louis Armstrong is] the father of us all, regardless of style or how modern we get. His influence is inescapable. Some of the things he was doing in the 20's and 30's, people still haven't dealt with.

  Nicholas Payton

  People, Style, Influence

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• With confidence we testify that the Atonement of Jesus Christ has anticipated and, in the end, will compensate all deprivation and loss for those who turn to Him. No one is predestined to receive less than all that the Father has for His children.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Jesus, Children, Loss

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• If the grim realities you are facing at this time seem dark and heavy and almost unbearable, remember that in the soul-wrenching darkness of Gethsemane and the incomprehensible torture and pain of Calvary, the Savior accomplished the Atonement, which resolves the most terrible burdens that can occur in this life. He did it for you, and He did it for me. He did it because He loves us and because He obeys and loves His Father. We will be rescued from death-even from the depths of the sea.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Pain, Dark, Reality

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• Setting goals is a worthy endeavor. We know that our Heavenly Father has goals because He has told us that His work and glory is "to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. You don't need an invitation before you start moving in the direction of your righteous goals. You don't need to wait for permission to become the person you were designed to be.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Moving, Men, Goal

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• Essential to our personal faith and development is the unmistakable knowledge that our Father and our Savior want us to succeed. They want us to return to Their presence. Because of Their love for us, They have given us resources to obtain comfort, direction, and strength for our journey home. I speak of prayer, the wonderful and sublime ability to communicate and share our concerns with the Father; the Holy Spirit, which will enlighten and comfort us; and the words of the prophets, both ancient and modern. These resources give us understanding and direction in dealing with our challenges.

  Dean M. Davies

  Prayer, Home, Journey

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• In speaking powerfully and eloquently for mercy and reconciliation to people divided by old hatreds and persecuted by abuse of power, the Holy Father was a beacon of light not just for Catholics, but for all people.

  William J. Clinton

  Light, People, Hatred

  "U.S. leaders pay tribute to pope", www.cnn.com. April 2, 2005.

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• I'll tell you what you can expect from an Irishman named Wellington whose father was a bookmaker. You can expect that anything he says or writes may be repeated aloud in your own home in front of your children. You can believe he was taught to love and respect all mankind, but to fear no man.

  Wellington Mara

  Children, Believe, Home

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• My central claim is that we become like Christ by doing one thing-by following Him in the overall style of life He chose for Himself. If we have faith in Christ, we must believe that He knew how to live. We can, through faith and grace, become like Christ by practicing the types of activities He engaged in, by arranging our whole lives around the activities He Himself practiced in order to remain constantly at home in the fellowship of the Father.

  Dallas Willard

  Believe, Home, Order

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• While the foods were being prepared, I watched as men dragged a foot-operated grinding wheel into an open space, and the groom devoted a tense hour to putting a razor's edge to a large, ornate dagger. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Girl, Eye, Men

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.620, Macmillan

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• Thomas Jefferson understood the greater purpose of the liberty that our Founding Fathers sought during the creation of our Nation. Although it was against the British that the colonists fought for political rights, the true source of the rights of man was clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson wrote that all humans are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights . . . . It was self-evident to him that denying these rights was wrong and that he and others must struggle to win what was theirs.

  William J. Clinton

  Struggle, Winning, Men

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• I shall never flaunt the little learning that I have acquired through the care and help my father has given me. If I have learned anything, it is only because he took care to teach me. Had he not taken upon himself the trouble of instructing me, I would be as ignorant as many other children.

  Augustin-Louis Cauchy

  Children, Taken, Ignorant

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• My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Musician, Sides, Social Worker

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• God said to Abraham: "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee." God says to man: "First, get you out of your country, that means the dimness you have inflicted on yourself. Then out of your birthplace, that means out of the dimness your mother inflicted on you. After that, out of the house of your father, that means out of the dimness your father inflicted on you. Only then will you be able to go to the land that I will show you"

  Martin Buber

  Country, Mother, Mean

  Martin Buber (2002). “Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings”, p.56, Psychology Press

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• I was trying to find out who my father was. They say that at that time, that if you are illegitimate, the father doesn't have to put his name down on the certificate.

  Eartha Kitt

  Names, Trying, Certificates

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• I encourage all Americans to express admiration and appreciation to fathers.

  George W. Bush

  Appreciation, Admiration

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• The most important thing about being a father is being able to forgive yourself. If you don't forgive yourself, you're not going to forgive your kids, either.

  Evander Holyfield

  Kids, Forgiving, Important

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• Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, 'Now I'm going to read my paper' than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.

  Benjamin Spock

  Girl, Zoos, Boys

  Benjamin Spock (1956). “The Pocket Book of Baby and Child Care”

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• When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

  Harry S. Truman

  Government, Secret, Mind

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• Entrust yourself entirely to God. He is a Father and a most loving Father at that, who would rather let heaven and earth collapse than abandon anyone who trusted in him.

  Paul of the Cross

  Heaven, Earth, Trust Yourself

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• The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual.

  Ronald Reagan

  Teaching, Rights, Abiding

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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