#father

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father. ↗

— Jules Feiffer

#father #grew #i #looks #mother

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#being #father #happy #life #living

I'm a much better writer for being a father. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#better #father #i #much #writer

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. ↗

— John le Carre

#book #completely #end #father #grew

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. ↗

— John Henry Carver

#came #canberra #capital #car #did

My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things. ↗

— Steve Case

#brothers #building #expectation #fascinated #father

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor. ↗

— Steve Case

#counselor #father #later #lawyer #mom

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered. ↗

— John Cleese

#father #flattered #god #know #like

My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#brush #case #children #cloud #every

Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

#antiquity #consensus #considerable #diligence #examine