Best His Father Quotations
318 His Father quotes by 245 unique authors
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the…
— Joseph C. Lincoln
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No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of…
— Thomas Gray
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Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.
— Brian Andreas
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Some would argue that the president himself benefited from a form of affirmative action because as a C student, he only got into Yale because…
— Jon Stewart
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If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to…
— Denis Diderot
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My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.
— Joe Lhota
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It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his…
— D. A. Carson
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Because Jesus Christ has prepared Himself from the foundations of the world we can trust Him as one uniquely qualified through the fullness of His…
— David Wright
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The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own…
— D. H. Lawrence
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By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.
— Mark Twain
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I don't believe in the hereditary principle in the House of Lords. Imagine going to the dentist, sitting in the chair and he says, 'I'm…
— Tony Benn
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Just as a person is commanded to honor and revere his father, so he is under an obligation to honor and revere his teacher, even…
— Maimonides
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My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.
— Lord Mountbatten
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When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much…
— Moses Mendelssohn
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Al Gore's problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He's actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had to do it…
— Andrew Sullivan
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Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which…
— Gustav Stresemann
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Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.
— Dinesh D'Souza
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You know one scene I always think about is in 'The Godfather', when Marlon Brando's in the hospital. Al Pacino arrives there and enlists the…
— Garret Dillahunt
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My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we…
— Britt Ekland
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Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae';…
— Peter Ackroyd
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I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid…
— Rene Auberjonois
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The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.
— Lou Reed
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George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're…
— Peter York
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