Fatherliness Quotes & Sayings

No one is ever ordinary. — Tanith Lee

Everyone should behave as if he carries the real thing. — Anthony Doerr

A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories of tender closeness with his own father. A man who has been able to accept tenderness from his father is able later in life to be tender with his own children. — Louise J. Kaplan

You can't go do stupid shit like that. — Richelle Mead

We knew our Father. There was no need for persuasion. Would not His Fatherliness be longing to give us our hearts' desire (if I may put it so)? How could we press Him as though He were not our own most loving Father? — Amy Carmichael

It's like somebody stuffed him in a barrel full of moonshine-proof cluelessness and then left him there to get pickled in it while it fermented into malice. — Alma Alexander

It is better to eat the dog than be eaten by the dog', Montagu had remarked quietly to the king, after being dismissed from Mortimer's presence. — Ian Mortimer

If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary. — Chogyam Trungpa

People have interpretations of what you're supposed to be like. If you're unattractive and overweight, you must have a great personality. If you're attractive, then you must not be the nicest person. People are always taken aback that I'm easygoing but not necessarily stupid. — Mila Kunis

Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth. — Kalki Krishnamurthy

Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the '60s - well, I was frankly surprised by the show's success and the attendant publicity for David and myself. — Robert Vaughn

I think the happiness we find, we make. — Helen Fisher

You always get a buzz from winning. Winning is ... everything. — Tony McCoy

At eighty-six years old, people tell you how much wisdom you have. I don't know about all of that, but I do know that God has done much in me and through me, and He's still working on me. — John M. Perkins

The unit of every country is the family and the strength of the country is based on the smiles of the children and songs of the adults. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

The deepest yearning of human beings seems to be a constellation in which the two poles (motherliness and fatherliness, female and male, mercy and justice, feeling and thought, nature and intellect) are united in a synthesis, in which both sides of the polarity lose their antagonism and, instead, color each other. — Erich Fromm