Paulo Coelho Quotes, Father Quotes, Thinking Quotes

You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.

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From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.

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I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Children Quotes , Father Quotes

In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Father Quotes , Half Quotes

Before us lay a painful road, And guidance have I sought in duteous love From Wisdom's heavenly Father. Hence hath flowed Patience, with trust that, whatsoe'er the way Each takes in this high matter, all may move Cheered with the prospect of a brighter day.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Patience Quotes , Father Quotes

Americans to bow our heads in humility before our Heavenly Father, a God who calls us not to judge our neighbors, but to love them, to ask His guidance upon our nation and its leaders in every level of government.

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The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Father Quotes

My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Family Quotes , Father Quotes

As we move toward the future, we must not neglect the lessons of the past. Our Heavenly Father gave His Son. The Son of God gave His life. We are asked by Them to give our lives, as it were, in Their divine service. Will you? Will I? Will we? There are lessons to be taught, there are kind deeds to be done, there are souls to be saved.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Father Quotes , Moving Quotes

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Children Quotes , Father Quotes

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Father Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Father Quotes , Boys Quotes

I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Father Quotes , Missing Quotes

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Nature Quotes , Father Quotes

I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.

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Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Giving Up Quotes , Father Quotes

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Father Quotes , Men Quotes

Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.

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Tags : Adam Gopnik Quotes , Father Quotes , Writing Quotes

The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this?

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Daughter Quotes , Father Quotes

It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.

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Tags : Aimee Bender Quotes , Daughter Quotes , Father Quotes

Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.

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Tags : Alafair Burke Quotes , Father Quotes , Reading Quotes