Distance Father Quotes

#1. I've been a long-distance father.

Phil Collins

#2. A young woman, if she fall into bad gands, may be teazed, and kept at a distance from those she wants to be with; but one cannot comprehend a young man's being under such restraint, as not to be able to spend a week with his father, if he likes it.

Jane Austen

#3. Fred Olmsted sat at the edge of the stagecoach seat, chattering to his father about their trip. How exciting to see the towns and forests of western New York! Suddenly, Fred stopped talking. That roar in the distance could only be one thing. Niagara Falls!

Julie Dunlap

#4. When I was younger, I was just always looking for this hot, so hot, like super-hot girl. And then, as I've gotten older, different things are really important to me, like just honesty. Being able to sit down and have a conversation.

Blake Griffin

#5. In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's house.

Os Guinness

#6. The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings.

John Locke

#7. When you serve your mother and father it is okay to try to correct them once in a while. But if you see that they are not going to listen to you, keep your respect for them and don't distance yourself from them. Work without complaining.

Confucius

#8. Love is a damage
made to the heart,
violence,
fate thats written,
Changeable by distance,
Breakable by time ... !

Honey Father

#9. Why should I? First she burns me, then she boils me eyes. If I take that knife to anything, it'll be 'er, and that's a fact.

Shelley Adina

#10. The people I see from my window. In the huts, in the distance. They're all dressed the same.' 'Ah, those people,' said Father, nodding his head and smiling slightly. 'Those people ... well, they're not people at all, Bruno.' Bruno frowned. 'They're not?' he asked, unsure what Father meant by that.

John Boyne

#11. It used to be all black, like my mother's. When I danced with the Lord of the Dead for the first time, he said it was beautiful, and he ran his fingers though it. All the hair turned white around them, out of jealousy. That's why I only have five black streaks left. Those are the parts he touched.

Seanan McGuire

#12. I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.

Sheila Heti

#13. During that year by the railroad embankment, at the time of my father's complete disaster, distance meant for us not only some faraway lyrical splendor but also the exceedingly utilitarian idea of running away, the deliverance from fear and hunger.

Danilo Kis

#14. I give no more paroles to British officers.

Christopher Gadsden

#15. Wasn't the worst, either. In the distance, low rolling hills stood, a pretty shade of brown, like coffee mash with just the right amount of pig's milk in it. The sky above the hills was the same dull gray of his childhood and his father's childhood and his grandfather's childhood. The only

Hugh Howey

#16. Dear Father, take my heart on a prayer journey today to erase the distance between those I love and me. Amen.

Karen Barber

#17. The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it.

Steve Farrar

#18. It is not God but the Devil who is in charge of the international situation and those who are working for God in it are poor servants if all they do is worship God and neglect their duty to cincumvent the Devil.

Ramsay MacDonald

#19. The Latin term pro bono, as most attorneys will attest, roughly translated means for boneheads and applies to work done without charge.

Sue Grafton

#20. My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

Constance Baker Motley

#21. ~I gripped the knife even tighter. Far off in the distance, I could still hear them speaking, but only one thing was clear in my mind: Trevor, my father, was going to die.
From that moment on, I was Chloe Kallistrate, a vampire hunter.~

Jennifer Malone Wright

#22. I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.

Justin Timberlake

#23. [My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.

Arthur Koestler

#24. Children leave ... and parents stay behind. Still, some things are deeper than time and distance. And your father will always be your father ... And he will always leave a light on for you.

Fred Savage