“I wonder if that's the difference between fathers and mothers. I'm friends with people who have kids that are like 5 and under, and they're still in that intense mother-bonding phase. It might just be that. Because the dads haven't changed.” PeopleIfsStillsMightKidsMotherFatherDifferencesWonderHavensChangedDadIntensePhasesBonding Author:Jen Kirkman
“I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.” LittlesLongMadeFatherMemoriesWonderJourneyCarTrainVagueVisitingLadSydneyCanberra Author:John Henry Carver
“My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to").” UsedLyingFatherWonderPoliticianContemptLifelong Author:Gore Vidal
“The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject, and to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.” ChildrenStillsBookLife IsFatherWonderMoralFourTeamSubjectsCollegeMarriedOur ChildrenBoundsTrackContemporaryTennisBoxingOne TimeHomosexualityExaminationEvaluateSelectedReviewersConnotationDistastefulHappily MarriedAdornmentContemporary LifeTennis Team Author:Sydney J. Harris
“The Saviour said He was going to prepare us a place. How wonderful it will be is beyond human computation. Remember that in six days Christ made the heavens and earth and all that in them is.... If He made so many wonders in six days, then what beauties and marvels He has surely prepared during these 1900 years in which He has been preparing our mansions in the Father's House!” IfsYearsHumansHas BeensMadeSaidEarthRememberFatherHouseHeavenChristWonderWonderfulSixPreparedPreparingSaviourHeaven And EarthMansionsComputation Author:John R. Rice
“The religion of our fathers overhung us children like the shadow of a mighty tree against the trunk of which we rested, while we looked up in wonder through the great boughs that half hid and half revealed the sky. Some of the boughs were already decaying, so that perhaps we began to see a little more of the sky than our elders; but the tree was sound at its heart.” HeartChildrenLittlesReligionFatherSoundHalfWonderTreeSkyShadowEldersOur FatherTrunks Author:Lucy Larcom
“Dad says that everyone invented baklava.” It occurs to me now to wonder what that means. Aunt Aya rolls her eyes. “Your father? He is the worst of the worst. He thinks he cooks and eats Arabic food but these walnuts were not grown from Jordanian earth and this butter was not made from Jordanian lambs. He is eating the shadow of a memory. He cooks to remember but the more he eats, the more he forgets.” ThinkingMeanMadeEyeEarthRememberFatherMemoriesForgetWonderWorstDadEatingShadowCooksHer EyesAuntLambsWalnuts Author:Diana Abu-Jaber
“My father passed away before he saw me perform. I can't help but wonder what he would think of all this. I go to a job in full makeup.” ThinkingI CanHelpingJobsFatherWonderSawsMakeupPassed AwayFather Passed Away Author:Ty Burrell
“Being a father can unreason your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. Its sad that childrens open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum.” PlayFatherFunWonderApproachFunctionInsightFadesMinimumAdolescenceFlexibleWorldviewFadingBeing A FatherFathering Author:Clyde Edgerton
“Every human being is a universe within themselves. Your mother and father participated with God to create a soul who would never cease to exist. Your parents, as co-creators, supplied the stuff, genetics and more, uniquely combined to form a masterpiece, not flawless but still astounding; and we took from their hands what they brought to us, submitting to their timing and history and added what only we could bring to them -- life. You were conceived, a living wonder who exploded into being.” HumansStillsSoulHandsFormMotherUniverseFatherStuffParentHuman BeingsWonderCreatorCeaseTimingMasterpieceGeneticsMother And FatherFlawless Author:William P. Young
“One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson that my father passed on to me, that knowledge liberates mankind from superstition. We can live our lives without the constant fear that we have offended this or that deity who must be placated by incantation or sacrifice, or that we are at the mercy of devils or the Fates. With increasing knowledge, the intellectual darkness that surrounds us is illuminated and we learn more of the beauty and wonder of the natural world.” WorldFatherNaturalWonderDarknessOur LivesFateSacrificeMankindLessonsIntellectualDevilMercyConstantSurroundSuperstitionsContinuingOffendedDeitiesNatural WorldGreatest GiftsEliminationIncreasing Knowledge Author:James D. Watson
“We must believe in Christ and pattern our lives after him. We must be baptized as he was baptized. We must worship the Father as he did. We must do the will of the Father as he did. We must seek to do good and work righteousness as he did. He is our Exemplar, the great Prototype of salvation. . . . we must so live as to acquire the attributes of godliness and become the kind of people who can enjoy the glory and wonders of the celestial kingdom.” PeopleBelieveKindFatherEnjoyChristWonderOur LivesWorshipGlorySalvationPatternsKingdomsAcquireRighteousnessAttributesCelestialGodlinessBaptizedPrototype Author:Joseph Fielding Smith
“I began writing The Cold Song in the months following my fathers death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: What now? How to proceed?” WritingSongFatherFeltLossWonderMiddleMonthsColdFollowingDisappearanceOld Song Author:Linn Ullmann
“In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father - of men as men, in other words.” IfsMenLittlesLyingFatherAnswersWonderRolesGenerationsFeminismHusbandMarriedContemporary Author:Dennis Prager
“Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And one always has to pause to wonder how much you have to drink to die at 34. And he was a really tragic father. I mean, he was absolutely unreliable. He was absolutely involved with various people. He had outside families, outside children, outside wives. He made his wife's life miserable. And she [Eleanor Roosevelt]ignored all of his faults and retained this sense of him as the perfect father.” PeopleWellsMeanChildrenMadeRealityAgeDiesFatherPerfectWonderWifeInvolvedDrinkDiedFaultsVariousMiserableTragicPausesIgnoredAlcoholicsUnreliableEleanorDiseasedPerfect Father Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.” PoliticalFatherWonderKingsDadCreaturesMy FamilyMusicalMy DadMumMixturesTouringTheatricalPianistExplosives Author:Grace Jones