A Quotes
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“A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.”
“A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.”
“A fat white seed sleeps in the sky.”
Source: Speak
“A fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule: the majority is too big to handle itself; it organizes itself into committees ... which in their turn resolve themselves into a committee of one.”
Source: The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government
“A fatal recovery from a promising illness”
“A fate is not a punishment.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“A fateful destination is often a result of the baggage that accompanies one’s journey”
Source: Dream Fisher: A Metaphysical Work of Contemporary Fiction
“A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the selves of several people in his own self.”
“A father and his son are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene and the son, badly injured, is rushed to the hospital. In the operating room, the surgeon looks at the boy and says, "I can't operate on this boy. He is my son”
Source: Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
“A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'”
“A father before he died said to his son: “this is a watch your grandfather gave and this is more than 200 years old, but before I give it to you go to the watch shop on the first street, and tell him I want to sell it, and see how much it is”.
He went and then came back to his father, and said, "the watchmaker paid ₹200 because it's old”.
He said to him : “go to the coffee shop”. He went and then came back, and said: “He paid ₹250 father”.
“Go to the museum and show that watch”.
— He went then came back, and said to his father “They offered me a billion rupees for this piece”.
The father said: “I wanted to let you know that the right place values your value in a way right, don't put yourself in the wrong place and get angry if you don't. Who knows your value is who appreciates you, don't stay in a place that doesn't suit you".
Know your worth!”
“A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new”
“A father carries pictures where his money used to be.”
“A father doesn't say, 'Don't go that way.' He says, 'ome follow me.'”
“a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a father whose compound of ambitions, biases, and beliefs is so unruffled by careful thinking that he isn’t as easy to escape from as he seems. Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons. It was our job to love them.”
“A father gives his child nothing better than a good education”
“A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?”
“A father has to do everything in his power to keep a tight ship, even though he knows the crew would like to send him away in a dinghy.”
“A father hurt by his son realizes how much he hurt his father!”
“A father is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with snapshots of his kids.”
“A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be, A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be.”
“A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.”
“A father is a man who fails every day.”
Source: Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
“A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.”
“A father is a thousand schoolmasters.”
Source: Between you and me
“A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”
“A father is an animal the moment he loves his public reputation more than his children but the father becomes a father of his children, the moment he loves his children more than his public reputation. What we lack today is a selfless father who loves his children not a father who is addicted to his public reputation than his children. Fathers are plenty but a transparent and sincere fathers are few.”
Source: Wifey: astounding secrets of soulmate
“A father is someone who can't get on the phone, in the bathroom or out of debt.”
“A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow.”
“A FATHER is that Faithful Friend that Aids everyone on Through Thick and Thin, Enduring every pain and Embarrassment just to make sure that we all come out Empowered and Resourcefulness.”
Source: THE HONEYMOON: A SACRED AND UNFORGETTABLE SAVOUR OF A BLISSFUL MARITAL JOURNEY
“A father is the man who can change a world he will not be part of by building the tiny human that is part of him.”
“A father is the man who realizes that a life spent in the service of his children is the creation of a legacy so vast that it can be deeply drawn from for generations to come, but it will never be emptied by any who come to it.”
“A father is the man who teaches trembling hands to reach up in search of everything impossible, for he has left his child with the unbridled sense that to do anything less is the greatest impossibility of all.”
“A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us.”
Source: File number 113: and The little old man of Batignolles
“A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl”
“A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers.”
Source: Lone Wolf and Cub Vol. 1: The Assassin's Road
“A father knows that the voice of a child singing is nothing less than the heart of a father that lost its voice. And so, rather than write such singing off to the ignorance of childhood muse, the wise father learns to sing again.”
“A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.”
Source: Don Quixote
“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.”
“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.”
“A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.”
“A father must be good to his wife and daughter, because from watching this treatment — the son will learn how to treat all women, and his daughter will know what a good man is supposed to act like. And a mother must always remain morally good and faithful to her husband, be attentive to all her children, and be filled with patience, forgiveness, kind words, compassion and love — so her children are raised to respect all mothers, and know what a good woman is supposed to act like. If you neglect your fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, husbands, and wives, then don't be surprised when the Creator is forced to neglect you. Neglect, and you will be neglected. Protect, and you will be protected. Reject, and you will be rejected. Love all, and all that love will be mirrored by the Creator — and reflected back onto YOU.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“A father must lead his children; but first he must learn to follow. He must laugh with them but remember the ache of childhood tears. He must hold the past with one hand and reach to the future with the other so there can be no generation gap in family love.”
Source: Quiet Moments for Women: A Daily Devotional
“A father never gives up on a son, not really, no matter how poorly he behaves at times or how many stupid decisions he makes. He tries to help that son learn how to become the man he was meant to be.”
Source: Far Haven: A Quest for Certitude. A Fight for Justice.
“A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?”
Source: Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers
“A father of the highest caliber will point the way only because he has walked it beforehand. And in the walking he has meticulously cleared it of all the obstructions that would harm his family in the manner that they harmed him when he first cleared them.”
“A father's greatest gift to his children is choosing to love their mother during the worst of times, not just the best.”
Source: Daddy's Little Girl: A Father's Prayer
“A father’s greatest legacy isn’t what he hands down, but what he pours in—time, example, and unwavering belief. Lead your children with love today, and your impact will echo for generations.”
“A father's love can be a terrible thing”