Father Quotes (Page 79)

Veronica Roth Author

Father

"At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free."

Mother Father Hurt

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Veronica Roth Author

Father

"People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought."

People Father Tobias

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Veronica Roth Author

Father

"I was still afraid of him, I knew, but in a different way - I was no longer a child, afraid of the threat my terrifying father posed to my safety. I was a man, afraid of the threat he posed to my character, to my future, to my identity."

Children Character Father

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Veronica Roth Author

Father

"I hold the gun out from my body, my arms straight, just as Four taught me, when that was his only name. I used a gun like this to defend my father and brother from simulation-bound Dauntless. I used it to stop Eric from shooting Tobias in the head. It is not inherently evil. It is just a tool."

Father Brother Gun

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Veronica Roth Author

Father

"There are men with guns up there. When they see me, they will kill me, if they can," I tell my father quietly. I search his eyes. "Should I let them?" He stares at me for a few seconds. "Go," he says, "and God help you."

Eye Father Gun

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Veronica Roth Author

Father

"I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodeness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know. My father: Erudite-born, Abnegation-grown. He often found it difficult to live up to the demands of his chosen faction, just as I did. But he tried, and he knew true selflessness when he saw it."

Father Insecurity Selfishness

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Sam Smith Singer

Father

"We do not worship the Prophet. We worship God our Eternal Father and the risen Lord Jesus Christ. But we acknowledge the Prophet; we proclaim him; we respect him; we reverence him as an instrument in the hands of the Almighty in restoring to the earth the ancient truths of the divine gospel, together with the priesthood through which the authority of God is exercised in the affairs of His Church and for the blessing of His people."

Father Jesus Blessing

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Rainn Wilson Actor

Father

"Absolutely. I am a father, and I know best. If there's any question, just ask me."

Father Knows Ask Me

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet

Father

"The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father."

Father Age Circles

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Vidal Sassoon Hairdresser

Father

"When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could."

Father Ran

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Vidal Sassoon Hairdresser

Father

"During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted."

Mother Father Holes

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Vidal Sassoon Hairdresser

Father

"I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing."

Home Mother Father

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