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Letter "T" » The Father
«And the three men I admire most, The Father, Son and the Holy Ghost; They caught the last train for the coast, The day the music died»
Author: Don McClean
| Keywords:
coast, coasting, Coast to Coast, ghost, holy day, Holy Father, Holy Ghost, holy man, The Father, The three
«A properly kept silence is a beautiful thing; it is nothing less than the father of very wise thoughts»
Author: Diodicus
| About:
Silence
| Keywords:
Beautiful Thing, Father, Father of, kept, less than, properly, The Father
«Doubt is the father of invention.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Doubt,
Inventions
| Keywords:
Father of, invention, The Father
«Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue»
«A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.»
Author: Aesop
(Author, Fabulist)
| Keywords:
binding, bunch, bundle, bundles, bundling, challenged, differ, ease, farmer, for anything, in parallel, in vain, laying, match, My Sons, one by one, parallel, paralleled, pick up, quarrelsome, separate, sons, sticks, The Father, the sticks, undone, untie, untied, untying
«Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows»
«A father . . . knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.»
Author: Bill Cosby
(Actor, Comedian, Producer)
| Keywords:
arrested, arresting, arrests, boys, Boys Will Be Boys, daughter, deprave, depraved, depraves, Keep On Running, mall, malls, owned, run over, The Father, The Mall
«Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.»
«But the father answered never a word. / A frozen corpse was he.»
«A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and especially the father»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Family,
Fulfilment,
Travel
| Keywords:
fulfillment, The Family, The Father, The Pleasure
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