#father

Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#arriving #comfortable #day #defies #description

I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#cars #father #grew #i #know

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#destiny #divine #down #fathers #fatigue

My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough. ↗

— Andrew Taylor Still

#aside #been #better #buy #constructed

My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material. ↗

— Jerry Stiller

#father #fighting #figured #i #if i could

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 was once a symbol of greatness to him. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#despise #even #father #faults #german

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#does #encourage #enterprise #expenditure #father

The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#get #grandfathers #i #offers #often

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#affection #been #caught #class #considered

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. ↗

— Patti Smith

#father #hated #loved #mom #play