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139. The more time we spend with God the more we see that he is not a distant king but a loving father. (God & Bush & Father) George W Bush
8,829. There is no good father, that’s the rule. Don’t lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity! (Children & Father) Jean-Paul Sartre, Les Mots 1964
8,843. I have had the father feeling for a building, but I never had it for my children. (Children & Father & Building & Architecture) Frank Lloyd Wright
18,628. I was a terrible father. Selfish. (Gangstas: Los Angeles & Father) Ray Donovan: A Mouth is a Mouth s1e2 starring Liev Schreiber & Paul Malcomson & Jon Voight & Eddie Marson & Dash Mihok & Steven Bauer et al, Mickey to Abby
18,811. He was a good guy, my father. (Gangstas US: New Jersey & Father) The Sopranos: Down Neck s1e7 starring James Gandolfini & Lorriane Bracco & Edie Falco & Michael Imperioli & Dominic Chianese & Steven van Zandt & Tony Sirico & Robert Iler et al, Tony to Dr Melfi
18,882. He comes from a place and a time when he thinks he has your best interests at heart. (Gangstas US: New Jersey & Father) The Sopranos: Fortunate Son s3e3 starring James Gandolfini & Lorriane Bracco & Edie Falco & Michael Imperioli & Dominic Chianese & Steven van Zandt & Tony Sirico & Robert Iler et al, Carmela to Meadow, of Tony
18,925. Your father was like a mentor to me. (Gangstas US: New Jersey & Father) The Sopranos: For All Debts Public & Private s4e1 starring James Gandolfini & Lorriane Bracco & Edie Falco & Michael Imperioli & Dominic Chianese & Steven van Zandt & Tony Sirico & Robert Iler et al, Tony to Chris in car
20,447. They’re my boys; I’m their dad. (GBH Films & Father) Wild Bill 2011 starring Will Poulter & Iwan Rheon & Jason Flemyng & Liz White & Charlie Creed-Miles & Sammy Williams & Morgan Watkins & Leo Gregory et al, director Dexter Fletcher, dad in rozzer car
20,697. My dad was Bulla the Fourth. The great fighting midget. (GBH Films & Father) Big Fat Gypsy Gangster: Bulla The Movie 2011 starring Ricky Grover & Omid Djalili & Tulisa Contostavlos & Steven Berkoff & Peter Capaldi & Rufus Hound & Rochelle Wiseman & Laila Morse et al, director Ricky Grover, Bulla
27,559. The wounded self ... He described a very sadistic father. (Nazi & Father) Dr Jerrold Post, psychological profiler
32,360. My father was frightened of his mother: I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me. (George V & Father) George V, attributed
72,818. I’m just an ordinary human being. With a reasonable amount of intelligence. Capable of handling most situations. But I’m not a superman. And I can’t bring about miracles. Just because I’m your father doesn’t mean that I’m infallible. Father Knows Best
72,819. I dislike my father. But I was sexually attracted to him when I was young. Francis Bacon, cited The Art of Francis Bacon
72,820. Pardon, old fathers. William Butler Yeats
8,885. Too like the sire for ever being good.
First hang the child, that he may see it sprawl –
A sight to vex the father’s soul withal.
Get me a ladder. Despiteful and intolerable wrongs!
Shall I endure this monstrous villainy? (Children & Father) William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus V i 50-53, Lucius to Aaron
55,657. It is a wise father that knows his own child. (God – God to Man & Children & Father) William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice II ii 72-73, Lancelot to Gobbo
72,821. Untented woundings of a father’s curse
Pierce every sense about thee! (Father & Curse) William Shakespeare, The History of King Lear I iv 294-295, Lear
72,822. Spoke with how manifold and strong a bond
The child was bound to the father. ibid. II i 46-47, Edmund
72,823. Close? I hated him. I detested his fat stupid guts, the pop-eyed balding git ... I had three brothers. When we were young he bought a traction machine so he could stretch us. By the time my brother Clive was eleven he was six foot five. Red Dwarf II: Better than Life, Rimmer
72,824. The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays 1928 ch14 Freedom Versus Authority in Education
72,825. The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf. Bertrand Russell, Introduction to the New Generation 1930
72,826. His cares are eased with intervals of bliss;
His little children, climbing for a kiss,
Welcome their father’s late return at night;
His faithful bed is crown’d with chaste delight. Virgil, Georgics
72,827. He follows his father, but not with equal steps. Virgil, Aeneid
72,828. The authority of a father to guide and govern the education of his child is a very sacred thing, bestowed by the Almighty, and to be sustained to the uttermost by human law. It is not to be abrogated or abridged, without the most coercive reason. For the parent and the child alike, its maintenance is essential, that their reciprocal relations may be fruitful of happiness and virtue; and no disturbing intervention should be allowed between them whilst those relations are pure and wholesome and conducive to their mutual benefit. (Father & Education) Lord O’Hagan, re Meades (1870) 5 Ir L R Eq 103
87,684. I have always been scared of you,
With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo.
And your neat moustache
And your Aryan eye, bring blue.
Panzer-man, panzer-man O You – (Afraid & Fear & Father) Sylvia Plath, Daddy 1963
23,471. My Father is Evil and Wants to Take Over the World. (Spy Films & Evil & Father & Son) Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 1999 starring Mike Myers & Heather Graham & Michael York & Robert Wagner & Rob Lowe & Mindy Sterling & Seth Green & Verne Troyer & Elizabeth Hurley & Will Ferrell et al, director Jay Roach, Jerry Springer Show
23,472. Dad is the Head of a Worldwide Organisation that Wants to Dominate the World. (Spy Films & Totalitarianism & Control & Father & Son) ibid.
23,473. Because you’re not quite evil enough. Well it’s true. You’re quasi-evil. (Spy Films & Evil & Father & Son) ibid. Dr Evil to Scott
92,140. I can manage. No sweat. I can cook. Course I can cook. Who says I can’t? (Unemployment & Father) Bleasdale, Boys from the Blackstuff: Yosser’s Story, Yosser
92,152. She didn’t love me. She didn’t love the kids. I know you want to talk to me about the kids. I want to keep the kids. I want to keep the kids. (Unemployment & Children & Father & Mother) ibid.
92,154. Send me away. Where they are. Let me be with them. (Unemployment & Father & Children) ibid. Yosser to doctor