Best father & found Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.”

Years Three Found Father Left Week Affair Pregnant Mum Were Pregnant

Author:Carol Vorderman

“If the divine Logos of God the Father became son of man and man so that He might make men gods and the sons of God, let us believe that we shall reach the realm where Christ Himself now is; for He is the head of the whole body (cf. Col. 1:18), and endued with our humanity has gone to the Father as forerunner on our behalf. God will stand 'in the midst of the congregation of gods' (Ps. 82:1 LXX) - that is, of those who are saved - distributing the rewards of that realm's blessedness to those found worthy to receive them, not separated from them by any space.”

“When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.”

Way Years Found Father Years Ago England British Kenya

Author:Louis Leakey

“My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.”

Thinking Firsts Would Be Jobs Moving Actors Found Father Left Half Stupid Amount Waiter

Author:Alfred Molina

“If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.”

Ifs Way Littles Mother Found Father Speak Voice Heard Brother Quiet Best Way Shut Up Older Brother Little Sister

Author:Peter Welch

“I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.”

Feels Found Father Voice My Own

Author:Dweezil Zappa

“My father was an engineer, .. But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for all the films. So I became first an assistant critic and then the main film critic. Those free passes changed my life.”

Firsts Film Found Father Changed Criticism Critics Engineers Assistants Changed My Life Stanford Film Critics

Author:Roger Corman

“The time has been in Israel under the law of God, the celestial law, or that which pertains to the celestial law, for it is one of the laws of that kingdom where our Father dwells, that if a man was found guilty of adultery, he must have his blood shed, and that is near at hand. But now I say, in the name of the Lord, that if this people will sin no more, but faithfully live their religion, their sins will be forgiven them without taking life”

People Ifs Men Has Beens Hands Law Found Father Names Sin Lord Blood Israel Kingdoms Guilty Shed Forgiven Adultery Our Father Celestial Shedding Blood

Book:The Essential Brigham Young

Source: The Essential Brigham Young

“I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years. Once in awhile, a letter does fall behind a post office desk and lie there for years before it's finally discovered and delivered to the rightful address. The seemingly brain-dead sometimes wake up and start talking. I'm always on the lookout for proof that what is done can sometimes be undone.”

Source: The Age of Miracles

“Our Savior was crucified for our sakes that by His death He might give us life and train and attract us all to endurance. To Him I press on, and to the Father and to the Holy Spirit. I strive to be found true, judging myself unworthy of this world's goods; and yet not I because of the world, but the world because of me. Think of all these things in your heart; follow them with zeal; fight, as you have been commanded, for the truth to the death: For Christ was made 'obedient' even 'to death'”

“We have not yet received our kingdoms, neither will we, until we have finished our work on earth . . . . Then he that has overcome and is found worthy, will be made a king of kings, a lord of lords over his own posterity, or in other words: A father of fathers.”

Made Earth Found Father Lord Kings Overcoming Worthy Finished Kingdoms Posterity Exaltation

Author:Brigham Young

“I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or whether Napoleon , at Austerlitz, really felt that he was getting even with Madame Mère. I know nothing of the mother of Attila , but I rather suspect that she spoilt the little darling, who subsequently found the world irritating because it sometimes resisted his whims.”

Knows Men World Littles Sometimes Mother Found Father Felt Doubt He Man Filled Terror Chiefs Suspects Darling Pirate Whim Irritating Retrospective Spoilt

Book:Power: A New Social Analysis

Source: Power: A New Social Analysis

“The most important thing I found out from my father is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind.”

Ifs Kind Important Ends Enough Beautiful Found Father Discovery Important Things Glorious Pursued

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves”

“My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.”

People Trying War Facts Helping Fighting Found Father Language Clear Information Brother Asking Revenge Journalist Cycles Disappointed Brothers And Sisters Animosity Exacting Revenge

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“I was very dedicated and serious about fighting. I'd read about all the fighters. I found out where they came from, knew about their mothers and their fathers . . . I just read all about their lives, their training.”

Mother Fighting Found Father Serious Training Fighter Dedicated

Author:Mike Tyson

“I heard my first laughter on stage, when I was about 10 years old. It was gold pantomime and I remember I was playing Baron Fitznoodle, who was the father of the ugly sisters in "Cinderella." And I walked on and got a great big laugh and I thought that was fantastic, until I looked down and found that my flies were open. And so I always check my flies. I even check my flies on radio.”

Years Firsts Bigs Remember Found Father Laughing Heard Stage Laughter Gold Down And Radio Ugly Checks Fantastic Pantomime

Author:Michael Caine

“The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility. I have listened to many women in various countries, and I have never found a woman who willingly 'mothers' her husband. The very idea is repulsive to her. She wants to mother the children while they are young, but never their fathers. True, she may be forced into the role of mother by a man's weaknesses and childishness, and then she accepts the role with dignity and patience, or with anger and impatience, but always with a secret, profound sadness unexpressed and inexpressible.”

“In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street poolroom over Longley's Lunch. And there were the earnest young Irishmen who fought their way up from the Grand Avenue saloonkeeper backgrounds of their fathers, went through Yale Law School, and have now found high place by the preferment of local politics or in the teaching profession.”

Source: Studs Lonigan

“The most important thing, my father told me, which I have never forgotten, and which I have often put unto practice was: If you get into a quarrel with anybody, hit him first. "If you hit first, the battle is half-won," my father always said "Don't let him hit first. You hit him first." "What's more," he never forgot to say, too "Usually one blow is all you need." I found this to be true.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Said Important Found Father Half Practice Battle Important Things Forgotten Blow Being True Quarrels

Author:Christopher Vokes

“Widowhood provided Mama with a higher form of being. In refusing to recover from my father's death she had discovered that her life was endowed with a seriousness her years in the kitchen had denied her. She remained devoted to this seriousness for thirty years. She never tired of it, never grew bored or restless in its company, found new ways to keep alive the interest it deserved and had so undeniably earned.”

Way Years Form Found Father Interest Company Alive Grew Higher Tired Bored Thirty Kitchen Denied Devoted New Ways Restless Seriousness Mama Thirty Years Widowhood

Author:Vivian Gornick

“I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time in my life, I found there was music in my country that you never heard on the radio, and you didn't hear on the juke boxes, and in theaters. I fell in love with it, especially the long-necked banjos.”

Years Firsts Long Country Found Father Heard First Time Theater Radio Boxes Squares Festivals Carolina North Carolina Banjos Old Year

Author:Pete Seeger

“One thing I've found in any project is almost universally about three quarters of the way through - or maybe a little father, maybe seventh eighths on the way through - any project will explode.”

Way Littles Three Found Father One Thing Projects Quarters

Author:Steven Pressfield

“I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.”

Men Looks Soul Eye Mother Found Father Grows Youth Lovers Mouths Bones Flesh Tales My Soul Fairy Old Man Categories Fairy Tale Folds Cracked Fragmented

Author:Jennifer Stone

“Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.”

Whole Lying Found Father Findings Medicine Invention Chests Homeopathy Finding Myself

Book:New Letters and Memorials

Source: New Letters and Memorials

“I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found it, but I went to Hunter College. I had no money and I couldn't speak English.”

Thinking Knows Ideas Found Father Speak Know How New York College Good Ideas Hunters No Money Speak English

Author:Francisco Costa

“Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.”

People Moments Hands Eye Form Mother Found Father Voice Doors Car Hair Add Rose Miles Chairs That Moment Bent Old People Mother And Father

Author:Louise Erdrich

“Women are different from men in major, major ways. I have found more courage in women than you could ever find in men, and I love men, in terms of father, brother, everyone, disciples, students etc. Yet men have certain powers of compassion that are hard-pressed to be found in a woman to that degree.”

Men Way Different Hard Certain Found Father Term Compassion Students Brother Degrees Majors Etc Disciple

Author:Maya Tiwari

“The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary and deliberate revisions and additions of our own, more or less directly occasioned by the continuing stimulation of our sense organs. It is a pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. But I have found no substantial reasons for concluding that there are any quite black threads in it, or any white ones.”

Source: The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays

“[My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding.”

Mother Found Father Shirts Drawers Ham

Book:My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business - Dick Van Dyke

Source: My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business - Dick Van Dyke

“Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine ordinance of government, in every stage of the ascent, was adjustable on principles of common reason to the actual condition of a people, and always had for its objects, in the benevolent councils of the divine wisdom, the happiness, the expansion, the security, the elevation of society, and the redemption of man. They sought in vain for any title of authority of man over man, except of superior capacity and higher morality.”

“Everything I ever learnt as a small boy came from my father, and I never found anything he ever told me to be wrong or worthless. The simple lessons he taught me are as sharp and clear in my mind as if I had heard them only yesterday.”

Ifs Mind Found Father Simple Boys Clear Heard Taught Lessons Yesterday Worthless

Author:Irving Pichel

“I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each kid an average of twenty-two minutes a week, which I found almost unbelievable. Mine are in my hip pocket all the time. And I like it that way.”

Way Two Home Kids Found Father Week Minutes Mines Twenties Average Hips Pockets Unbelievable Twenty Two

Book:Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

Source: Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

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