Paternal Pride Quotes & Sayings

Riches are in fortune A greater good than wisdom is in nature. — Ben Jonson

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude. — Austin O'Malley

I always thought strength came from within you, that it started there and ended there. It was of your own making.
I was wrong.
Strength is a gift placed inside you, built up by the people who love you. Fortified by the people who hate or threaten you. These are the things I will teach my son. — Lauren Nicolle Taylor

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way. — Danny Kaye

We are many. Our number is greater than the stars. We are more than infinity. — Brian Keene

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove. — Samuel Johnson

Julie sat back and laughed. "I don't know about that." She looked into Matt's eyes. "Even so, I love you." Matt smiled at her and winked. "I know. — Jessica Park

I think he came to die with me," I say. I clamp my hand over my mouth to stifle a sob. If I can keep breathing, I can stop crying. I didn't need or want him to die with me. I wanted to keep him safe. What an idiot, I think, but my heart isn't in it.
"That's ridiculous," he says. "That doesn't make any sense. He's eighteen; he'll find another girlfriend once you're dead. And he's stupid if he doesn't know that."
Tears run down my cheeks, hot at first and then cold. I close my eyes. "If you think that's what it's about ... " I swallow another sob. " ... you're the stupid one. — Veronica Roth

But Dad looked delighted. My Mia's singing 'Waiting for Vengeance' to my Teddy. What do you think about that? — Gayle Forman

Pure love' means that it never increases or decreases. If it does not decrease when you curse him and it does not increase when you give him garlands of flowers; it is 'Pure Love'. 'Pure love' is considered Paramatma prem (Love of God). That is indeed true religion. — Dada Bhagwan

Family and dysfunction went together like peanut butter and jelly. Family sagas. Everything would be okay. But how? — Diana Y. Paul