Father Quotes
Our fathers fought bravely. But do you know the biggest weapon unleashed by the enemy against them? It was not the Maxim gun. It was division among them. Why? Because a people united in faith are stronger than the bomb.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
I used this as a force, saying to myself in the mirror, you should win for your father because he let you leave, because he believed in you
Nawal El Moutawakel
I liked Francesco straight away. Not only as a player but as a person. He is a phenomenon. A rare player. It seems as if when he was born, the heavenly father said: 'Go down there and play football and that's it.' And he did what he was prescribed to do.
Gianni Rivera
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People tell my father, 'You've lost your daughter; she's fighting against tradition and religion!' He's scared but supports me
Chantal Maillard
The Devil is a Five-headed
Snake, says the father.
The son says, Nay, it's a Six-headed one.And then their hearts burn
with hate for each others —
and they live apart for many years.
Mahakavi Subramania Bharati
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Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed or broken by it, but like a good prince and a true father, hath placed their exercise above restraint, compulsion, or hindrance, and wholly within our own control.
Epictetus
My father served the State by investing a weaving machine. He told me to make automobiles. It is difficult to create an automobile industry.
Sakichi Toyoda
My father served the State by investing a weaving machine. He told me to make automobiles. It is difficult to create an automobile industry.
Kiichiro Toyoda
Abolitionism proposes to destroy the right and extinguish the principle of self-government for which our forefathers waged a seven years' bloody war, and upon which our whole system of free government is founded.
Josiah Wedgwood
These influences of my young childhood were greatest: 1, the mountain landscape, 2, my father the impossible idealist, and 3, the upringing of a closely-knit Christian home.
Lin Yutang
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It is a chaotic house, built without method, and has acquired its present form over many years: many differently-sized rooms, some built up against one another at different times, either because they were needed or because my grandfather found himself with some spare money for which he had no other use.
Tayeb Salih
My name is Nick Berg, my father's name is Michael, my mother's name is Suzanne. I have a brother and sister, David and Sarah. I live in West Chester, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
Fazıl Say
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?Our young people don’t wear the clothes or respect their forefathers, the girls have hair extensions and wear western clothes. This does not make me feel comfortable. They are vandalising our traditions. This is why I talk to them, try to motivate them with my travels and teach them too about Aids.”
Esther Mahlangu
I'm master when my father's away.
Moor Mother
Colin Bruce - Major Lennox (Mary's father)
Moor Mother
I would like to do for you now, a Japanese science fiction movie: "Attack of the Killer Vibrators."
Robin Williams