Quotes 221 till 240 of 272.
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Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: ''the Son, O how unlike the Father!'' First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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Thy wish was father to that thought.
King Henry IV (1597) Part 2 -
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
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To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child, when his parents die, the past dies.
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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends boyfriends - and he accepts it.
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Very few people are blessed enough to call their father a legend, and an even smaller number are able to share that notion with the rest of the world.
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We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.
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We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity.... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
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We covered Hey Jude. My father panicked, misunderstanding the lyrics and thinking our lead singer was belting out Hey, Jew to a roomful of Holocaust survivors.
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We felt often that we were perceived as mothers trying to be lawyers, while a male colleague of ours who had a young child was perceived as a lawyer who also happened to be a father.
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We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.
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We've done as best a job as we can making it clear that I'm earning what I'm earning because of me and not because of who my father is. But at the same time, I'm not ignoring things that would be dumb to ignore, like people that I can know through him and experiences I can have through him and things that I can learn from him.
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What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.
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What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician - these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.
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