Family Patriarch Quotes

#1. Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her.

Tony Scott

#2. The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

William Butler Yeats

#3. If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. It really is public brainwashing and misinformation.

Robert Kane Pappas

#4. The role of the patriarch is very important... Even though he may be an ineffectual one, his presence alone keeps the family together.

Siddharth Chowdhury

#5. We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.

Barack Obama

#6. Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole's Aunt Patti was the last woman standing.

Liz Rosenberg

#7. I make a mean pecan pie, and I have a great recipe for pralines - also using pecans. Pralines take a lot of patience, and patience is a must in the duck blind as well as in the kitchen. Good things come to those who wait.

Phil Robertson

#8. I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family."
"Very boring, Emerson.

Elizabeth Peters

#9. I have mild albinism, which means I am very sensitive to light, so the animal representation of my spirit would have to be a mole. I am particularly fond of that most Lovecraftian of mammals, the star-nosed mole, and tend to choose it for online icons and avatars.

Sarah Monette

#10. Not counting 'Small Steps,' I think 'Holes' is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn't changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I'm still too close to 'Small Steps' to compare it to 'Holes.'

Louis Sachar

#11. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.

Tony Scott

#12. Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.

Blake Mycoskie

#13. My father said he was going to write to the Jinzhou City Party Committee asking for permission to 'talk about love' ... My mother supposed it was a bit like asking permission from the head of the family ... the Communist Party was the new patriarch.

Jung Chang

#14. The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.

Adam Weishaupt

#15. I like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard to it.

Jamie Waylett