Top 100 Not Your Father's Quotes

#1. Sometimes it's blood memory ... not the blood your mother and father gave you ... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

Martha Graham

Not Your Father's Quotes #8433
#2. Well he could hate too, hate was easy, hate would fuel him if his mother's love could not. Loyalty is our strength. He snorted a silent laughed of derision. Let loyalty be your strength, Father. My hate for you will be mine.

Anthony Ryan

Not Your Father's Quotes #13683
#3. The only way Father is going to be upset in this case, is with the way the two of you are behaving toward one another. We are family, whether you believe it or not. Your lack of faith in Lucifer is what will do the damage in the long run. It has nothing at all to do with the time I spend with him.

Melyssa Winchester

Not Your Father's Quotes #27965
#4. The elector is young and ambitious, but he is not his father. He wants to fight for you, just as I fight for you, but first you need to give him that chance. And if you put your might behind him and lift him up, he will lift us up.

Marie Lu

Not Your Father's Quotes #30647
#5. I am the God of your father Abraham' (Genesis 26:24a). God is not just identifying himself: he is also reaffirming his commitment. As the Lord was with Abraham, so he will be with Isaac. As his power was seen in the life of Abraham, so it will also be seen in the life of Isaac.

Samuel Ngewa

Not Your Father's Quotes #32667
#6. Fathers, your are the head and strength of the family unit. If you are not in place, there is a weakness in the link.

Anita R. Sneed-Carter

Not Your Father's Quotes #33218
#7. Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Not Your Father's Quotes #40704
#8. When friends abandoned him, Paul asked God not to count their actions against them. He followed the example of Jesus, who prayed for the Father to forgive His persecutors. What's your response when friends let you down? Forgiveness is the choice that pleases God every time.

Charles Stanley

Not Your Father's Quotes #43615
#9. If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.

Louise L. Hay

Not Your Father's Quotes #51667
#10. You will not be asked about your culture in your grave. And you will not be judged based on your Father's last name. When the trumpet blares, there will be no more kings, only slaves. And your family traditions will not be able to keep you safe.

Boonaa Mohammed

Not Your Father's Quotes #57664
#11. Love is not an equation, as your father once wanted me to believe. It's not a contract, and it's not a happy ending. It is the slate under the chalk and the ground buildings rise from and the oxygen in the air. It is the place I come back to, no matter where I've been headed.

Jodi Picoult

Not Your Father's Quotes #63328
#12. Mind Your Language in the Presence of Patriachs

Q. When is rape not rape?
A. When it is your father or stepfather.

S. Caroline Taylor

Not Your Father's Quotes #94682
#13. Genuine surrender says, "Father, if this problem, pain, sickness, or circumstance is needed to fulfill your purpose and glory in my life or in another's, please don't take it away." This level of maturity does not come easy.

Rick Warren

Not Your Father's Quotes #103256
#14. Conner hadn't liked leaving the gravesite with his father still not buried. But he'd learned from his grandmother's funeral that you have to go. It's expected. Nobody hangs around the cemetary. Grief - a little or a lot - is tucked into your pocket and carried away.

Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson

Not Your Father's Quotes #111080
#15. To live as God's child is to know that you are loved by your Maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your Father. Nothing more.

Max Lucado

Not Your Father's Quotes #139135
#16. If you don't like your sister or don't get along with your father, let's find out if you like yourself. Let's not sugarcoat anything about it.

Iyanla Vanzant

Not Your Father's Quotes #170985
#17. Let - not - your - heart - be - troubled. In - my - Father's - house - are - many - mansions. I - go - to - prepare - a - place - for - you." Cicero,

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Not Your Father's Quotes #172902
#18. You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War.

Jeremy Hardy

Not Your Father's Quotes #189364
#19. Sometimes when you try not to repeat your mistakes, you forget that the original mistakes are still unfolding

Lauren Kate

Not Your Father's Quotes #208887
#20. No matter where you once were, no matter how dark your storm, God doesn't want you to remain there. Overcoming may not be easy, but it's possible when you ask your Father to battle for you.

Dana Arcuri

Not Your Father's Quotes #291562
#21. Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, j "Is it you, you k troubler of Israel?" 18And he answered, "I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father's house, because you have l abandoned the commandments of the LORD and m followed the Baals.

Anonymous

Not Your Father's Quotes #306716
#22. George put his hand on top of Beatrice's and felt the warmth of both the woman and her hound pulsing through his fingers. "Just because your father does not see your victory does not mean that it is none," he said softly.

Mette Ivie Harrison

Not Your Father's Quotes #315503
#23. Tomorrow," he shouted, "you do not fight for me! I fight for you! I fight for Wessex! I fight for your wives, for your children and your homes! Tomorrow we fight and, I swear to you on my father's grave and on my children's lives, tomorrow we shall win!

Bernard Cornwell

Not Your Father's Quotes #343685
#24. O Heavenly Children, you chant God's name but you have forgotten him. He does not want your verses, or the coins from your purses, but for you to love and embrace each other. To uphold truth, justice and peace - and to respect your father and mother, fellow sisters and brothers.

Suzy Kassem

Not Your Father's Quotes #356396
#25. A servile spirit you have nothing to do with: you are not a slave, but a child; and now, inasmuch as you are a beloved child, you are bound to obey your Father's faintest wish, the least intimation of His will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Not Your Father's Quotes #362868
#26. You don't know how people are going to respond. But I would add to that, that getting your heart broken is not the worst thing and it's actually quite unavoidable. I think in some ways I had to break my father's heart and then face that in order to have a real relationship with him.

Melissa Febos

Not Your Father's Quotes #365554
#27. Child, think not of those things, those dark possibilities. Your father and brothers are here with you today. Lavain will tug at your braids, Tirry will sing you songs, and your father will see his wife's beauty in you. Savor their love today. And it will never leave you.

Lisa Ann Sandell

Not Your Father's Quotes #373413
#28. Pavlik denounced his father's crimes, and when Trofim shouted out, 'It's me, your father,' the boy told the judge: 'Yes, he used to be my father, but I no longer consider him my father. I am not acting as a son, but as a Pioneer.

Orlando Figes

Not Your Father's Quotes #404982
#29. Baby, nothing is going to keep me away from you. Not your father, not the band. If it's a risk, I don't fucking care. You are worth that risk.

Karina Halle

Not Your Father's Quotes #411223
#30. Speak to me, fair maid!
Speak and do not go!
What sorrows have your eyes inlaid
With such black woe?
My dam is buried deep
Dark are my father's halls
And carrion fowl and wolves now keep
Their ruined walls
From: The Lay of Andomian and Beruldh

Alison Croggon

Not Your Father's Quotes #413184
#31. .....if he's not man enough to stand up to your father, and take the crap he has to dish out, then he's not good enough to be with you.

Sam Crescent

Not Your Father's Quotes #483486
#32. I would encourage you to make your own investigation of the one whom, as He died, prayed for those who killed Him: 'Father forgive them for they know not what they do.' That is love's ultimate expression.

Gary Chapman

Not Your Father's Quotes #493191
#33. It's a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you - when he comes down from the mountain and you see he's this man with weaknesses. And you love him as this whole being, not as a figurehead.

Robin Williams

Not Your Father's Quotes #502388
#34. Heavenly Father's interest in you does not depend on how rich or beautiful or healthy or smart you are. He sees you not as the world sees you; He sees who you really are. He looks on your heart. And He loves you because you are His child.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Not Your Father's Quotes #505879
#35. My father's not the type of person that teaches you by saying, 'Come here, son. I'm going to tell you about real estate.' You learn by watching it. If you don't pick it up, it's your problem.

Donald Trump Jr.

Not Your Father's Quotes #507533
#36. And even as she holds on to him, like she's drowning, she can feel the familiar anger returning, like an old song that you've heard so many times it's not even a song anymore, just a wasted pathway in your brain that you can never reclaim.

Jonathan Tropper

Not Your Father's Quotes #511982
#37. We do not explain my husband's insane abuse
and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled
or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead.
Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.

Anne Sexton

Not Your Father's Quotes #532156
#38. Cal 's eyes reflected a weird combination of frenzy and fear as he twisted toward his father. My God!
She's on her way to becoming the most famous physicist in the country, and she's dumb as a post ! You are not having your baby in this house! You're having it at the county hospital!

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Not Your Father's Quotes #556044
#39. I complained to a friend that although I had completed six years in therapy, my mother still wouldn't let me go. He replied, "She's not supposed to let you go. Your father is supposed to come and get you.

Don Elium

Not Your Father's Quotes #563673
#40. Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It's best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I'll take over from here and try to undo the damage

Harper Lee

Not Your Father's Quotes #588277
#41. This is not your father's marketing. Instead of "do it right no matter what", search marketing demands that you "do it wrong quickly and then fix it".

Mike Moran

Not Your Father's Quotes #590339
#42. When my kids were younger, I used to avoid them. I used to sit on the toilet 'til my legs fell asleep. You want to know why your father spends so long in the toilet? Because he's not sure he wants to be a father.

Louis C.K.

Not Your Father's Quotes #599379
#43. Getting my father to throw anything away was pretty difficult. He was not trying to hide who he was, and he said, you don't have to hide the fact that I'm manic-depressive. You can tell people that's who I am. It's - explains a lot about your situation.

Maya Forbes

Not Your Father's Quotes #646552
#44. Hold yourself on your own. A man's job in a romantic dynamic is not to be your butler, bank account or your father.

Amy Chan

Not Your Father's Quotes #668168
#45. Everyone's afraid, but I'm not. Because I loved your father my whole life. I still do.

Mikhail Shishkin

Not Your Father's Quotes #690693
#46. Your father sounds frightening," Trayton said.
"He once made a general cry."
"No."
"I shit you not. The guy had to retire after that. I mean, really, who's going to follow your orders after some damn colonel's reduced you to tears?

Jennifer Rardin

Not Your Father's Quotes #694240
#47. It's not who you are, but whose you are that counts. Because God is your heavenly Father, doors of opportunity will open for you.

Joel Osteen

Not Your Father's Quotes #698365
#48. Not everyone knows what it is to have your father's rival's penis inches from your nose.

Ian McEwan

Not Your Father's Quotes #703337
#49. Women are now very comfortable to have babies into their late 30s. You can be a father in your 50s. I'm not saying it's for everybody, and I think people have to get their own life secure before they take on the responsibility of a partner and children.

Michael Douglas

Not Your Father's Quotes #717413
#50. Whatever your father did was not this woman's fault. And if she made him happy, when I obviously didn't, then the last thing you should be doing is yelling at her.

Jodi Picoult

Not Your Father's Quotes #729036
#51. If you're not getting work, make your own work. I think that's a good mentality. I suppose I take my drive from my mother and my practicality from my father.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

Not Your Father's Quotes #739351
#52. It's not convincing to say you are a child of God if you have none of the characteristics of your Father.

Kevin DeYoung

Not Your Father's Quotes #804699
#53. No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.

Jodi Picoult

Not Your Father's Quotes #813479
#54. You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.

Oliver Hudson

Not Your Father's Quotes #842563
#55. Your friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power, they bid you good-bye.

Sathya Sai Baba

Not Your Father's Quotes #853279
#56. Your father's an asshole. It's not a disease. You don't have to catch it.

Rachel Caine

Not Your Father's Quotes #873876
#57. God will forgive you if you ask him to. Though your sins be numerous as the grains of sand on the shore, God's merciful forgiveness is far greater than your sins. Do not be afraid. Trust in his love. Repent of your sins without delay and return to the house of the Father. He is waiting for you.

Patrick Madrid

Not Your Father's Quotes #880578
#58. Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

Barry Sanders

Not Your Father's Quotes #887726
#59. I'm your father's mother's father's mother.' 'Oh, dear! I can't understand that,' said the princess. 'I dare say not. I didn't expect you would. But that's no reason why I shouldn't say it.

George MacDonald

Not Your Father's Quotes #915670
#60. I smiled. "So this horse is your nephew, Sam?"
She glared at me. "Let's not go there."
"How did your dad father a horse?"
Blitzen coughed. "Actually, Loki was Sleipnir's mother."
"What
?"
"Let's definitely not go there," Sam warned.

Rick Riordan

Not Your Father's Quotes #922409
#61. One of these days, your luck won't hold, his father's voice reminded him.
Maybe, he thought back to it, but not today.

Peter V. Brett

Not Your Father's Quotes #961760
#62. Oh, yes, let's bless the imagination. It gives us the myths we live by. Let's bless the visionary power of the human - the only animal that's got it - , bless the exact image of your father dead and mine dead, bless the images that stalk the corners of our sight and will not let go.

Philip Levine

Not Your Father's Quotes #964427
#63. What's important is that you can be a wife and mother or you can be a devoted daughter all your life. You can't be both. Not when Thomas Jefferson is your father. You have to choose, Patsy. His

Stephanie Dray

Not Your Father's Quotes #990118
#64. My son, do not forget your father's instructions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Not Your Father's Quotes #990733
#65. I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had
Plato's white grandfatherly god
because that god is not a very good father. When it comes down to it, you can't trust him with your kids.

William P. Young

Not Your Father's Quotes #1018983
#66. A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.

Jake Roberts

Not Your Father's Quotes #1030818
#67. Father's silence is not merely the absence of sound. It's a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small as a grain of rice. It twists in your gut like a worm.
Silence clawed at my throat. It left a taste of burnt matches.

Franny Billingsley

Not Your Father's Quotes #1043010
#68. For whatever it is worth, I never believed Wickham's stories of maltreatment at your hands. Other than being a rather boring, disagreeable fellow, I did not think you so dishonorable that you would go against your father's wishes.

KaraLynne Mackrory

Not Your Father's Quotes #1075794
#69. 8 My son, hear the instruction of your father; reject not nor forsake the teaching of your mother. 9 For they are a [victor's] chaplet (garland) of grace upon your head and chains and pendants [of gold worn by kings] for your neck. 10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

Anonymous

Not Your Father's Quotes #1140592
#70. I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. My father taught me that, along with a few other things that have kept my life interesting.

Hunter S. Thompson

Not Your Father's Quotes #1141113
#71. Hate the part of him that gave in to madness. But don't hate your father, not all of him. There was a time when he loved you very much, and that's what you should remember.

Megan Shepherd

Not Your Father's Quotes #1144002
#72. My courage is nothing but borrowed courage." "Not borrowed," said Mother. "Stored up. In us. Like a bank. We've seen your courage and we saved some for you when you temporarily ran out and needed some of it back." "Cash flow problem, that's all it was," said Father.

Orson Scott Card

Not Your Father's Quotes #1147421
#73. It's all right. I'm not upset. After all, they were just things. When you've lost your mother and your father, you can't care so much about things, can you?

Kazuo Ishiguro

Not Your Father's Quotes #1172357
#74. Fear not, brothers and sisters, God, who is full of grace and abounding in steadfast love, meets us in our sin and transforms us for God's glory and the healing of God's world. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, your sins are forgiven, be now at peace.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

Not Your Father's Quotes #1177128
#75. The Fifth Commandment of the Decalogue demands that one honor one's mother and father. That is not about calling home. It is about this: Their God is your God, their friends are your friends, their debts are your debts, their enemies are your enemies and their fate is your fate.

George Friedman

Not Your Father's Quotes #1181470
#76. My father is an intellectual and physical man, which is a rather unusual combination. He's great. As he brought up me and my brothers and sisters, he ingrained in us that your appearance is not your responsibility, other than that you should not be a slob.

Christopher Reeve

Not Your Father's Quotes #1184761
#77. I feel terrible for a Palestinian child who dies. But, if it's your father, your brother or your uncle who was firing those rockets into Israel, whose fault is it really? Do you really expect the Israelis not to retaliate?

Bill Maher

Not Your Father's Quotes #1238151
#78. I don't know what's come over this place,' Maud stated. 'However, the Lord did, so in despair He showed me what I had better do.'
'And did the Lord suggest your sticking up your father for ten shillings?'
'No, I thought of that,' said Maud, not turning a hair.

Elizabeth Bowen

Not Your Father's Quotes #1267624
#79. No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you've got, say "Oh, my gosh," and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It's not a question of choice.

Marisa De Los Santos

Not Your Father's Quotes #1311275
#80. At times some may think that no one cares
but someone always cares! Your Heavenly Father will not leave you to struggle alone, but stands ever ready to help.

Thomas S. Monson

Not Your Father's Quotes #1326413
#81. Well, that's not something you see every day. Go tell your father that Grandma needs the grenades.

Seanan McGuire

Not Your Father's Quotes #1326907
#82. Son, you've got a lot to learn about love. You think it's all passion and excitement? That is only a small piece. Real love requires strength of character and courage. I'm not yet sure you have either. Go find your father. Bring him to Fort Mavis. Show me I'm wrong about you. Mason

Ruth Cardello

Not Your Father's Quotes #1361154
#83. My mom used to say, before, I met your father, that it's not about meeting the right guy - there are hundreds, thousands, of right guys in the world- it's figuring out the right one for you.

Ellie Alexander

Not Your Father's Quotes #1379801
#84. Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.

Zoe Saldana

Not Your Father's Quotes #1394399
#85. Thank God it's not, or your father would never have been conceived." "Ew! Grandma, ew! Don't say things like that! How can you say things like that with your face? Your actual grandma face? You're supposed to be all innocent and baking cookies and forgetting that sex was ever a part of your life.

Seanan McGuire

Not Your Father's Quotes #1460787
#86. It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.

Michael Haneke

Not Your Father's Quotes #1487527
#87. For the sinful self is not my real self, it is not the self YOU have wanted for me, only the self that I have wanted : And I no longer want this false self. But now, Father, I come to You in your own Son's self ... and it is He Who Presents me to You.

Thomas Merton

Not Your Father's Quotes #1499402
#88. You can imagine anything you want in the dark. You can imagine your father loves you, you can imagine your mother is not disappointed, you can imagine that you are...significant. That you mean somethin' to someone. That's all I ever wanted, Fielding. To matter. That is all I've ever wanted.

Tiffany McDaniel

Not Your Father's Quotes #1552697
#89. Love has many guises, Thea. Sometimes it's a stroke of lightning as it was for your father, other times a slow building storm as it was for me, but the one thing that never changes is that it must be nurtured. You can't kick a heart and expect it not to flinch. This,

Nalini Singh

Not Your Father's Quotes #1587018
#90. Life is hard and unfair. It is cruel and heartless, painful, trying, disappointing, unapologetic, and frequently downright awful. But that's not important. What's important is that through it all you learn how much you need your Heavenly Father and how much your friends need you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Not Your Father's Quotes #1618737
#91. My father loved me so much that he did not want me to be a laborer or anything. I don't know if it's the right thing to do - push your kids into something and then stay on them until they do it. Let them pick what they want to do.

Joe Pesci

Not Your Father's Quotes #1644237
#92. My father's voice had nevertheless remained untainted, inspiring, rebuking, granting or withholding approval. 'You do not work hard enough, Barry. You must help in your people's struggle. Wake up, black man!

Barack Obama

Not Your Father's Quotes #1667647
#93. For the first five years of Luca's life, I desperately wanted to be a good mother and not to pass on this trauma and darkness that his father and I had experienced, but there's a danger of suffocating your kids, too.

Janine Di Giovanni

Not Your Father's Quotes #1729780
#94. Tell your father he must come himself. I do not waste my time on fools and younger sons. I am old fashioned in this. I like to talk to the horse's head, not the horse's arse.

Joe Abercrombie

Not Your Father's Quotes #1737192
#95. The obedience which God's children yield to Him must be loving obedience. Do not go about the service of God as slaves to their taskmaster's toil, but run in the way of His commands because it is your Father's way.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Not Your Father's Quotes #1756555
#96. My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.

KaDee Strickland

Not Your Father's Quotes #1775306
#97. You do not take your place in your father's tent, letting men make your decisions. You ride as a man, you fight as a man, and you think as a man - " "I think as a human being," she retorted hotly. "Men don't think any differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to." As

Tamora Pierce

Not Your Father's Quotes #1786556
#98. PROVERBS 1:7-9 ENGAGE 1:7 7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but foolsa despise wisdom and instruction. 8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching. 9 They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.

Anonymous

Not Your Father's Quotes #1792989
#99. Can you hear me, Father? Can you understand me?" The eyes did not change or move. "I did it,"
Cal cried. "I'm responsible for Aron's death and for your sickness. I took him to Kate's. I showed him
his mother. That's why he went away. I don't want to do bad things - but I do them.

John Steinbeck

Not Your Father's Quotes #1796119
#100. Now, the whole world hears
Or shall hear,
surely shall hear, at the last,
Though men delay, and doubt, and faint, and fail,
That promise faithful:
"Fear not, little flock!
It is your Father's will and joy, to give
To you, the Kingdom"!

Matthew Arnold

Not Your Father's Quotes #1840299

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