#father

...why can't I stop all the moving and look out over the vast arrangements and find by the contours and colors and qualities of light where my father is, not to solve anything but just simply even to see it again one last time, before what, before it ends, before it stops. But it doesn't stop; it simply ends. It is a final pattern scattered without so much as a pause at the end, at the end of what, at the end of this. ↗

— P. Harding

#dying #father-and-son #life #death

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#because #cannot #compelling #deep #fathers

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#comes #except #father #i #i am

The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness. ↗

— Clayton Christensen

#brought #christ #deep #fact #father

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age. ↗

— Joel Coen

#burden #driving #education #father #jew

Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#being #father #finding #him #his

My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#back #father #got #greenwich #greenwich village

I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#around #father #husband #i #i always

...[W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, 'Honey, you're so beautiful it doesn't matter what you wear.' I wondered how many dads in America were, at that very moment, giving their daughters the same useless advice mine was giving me. ↗

— Melissa Kantor

#clothing #fathers #beauty

I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#father #i #married