Quotes About Fatherly Advice

#1. A woman who's given me a home-a purpose.And for the first time in my life,I-"
"A purpose?" Jennika squints, as she cocks her head and steps closer. "And just what exactly might that be? You planning to take over her garden? Apprentice as an herbal healer? I had much higher hopes for you, Daire.

Alyson Noel

#2. The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

Judy Blume

#3. If only preaching be necessary, let us have none but preachers. What needs there, then, such a stir about government? But if discipline (in its place) be necessary too, what is it but enmity to men's salvation to exclude it?

Richard Baxter

#4. It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.

Diana Ross

#5. As dad would always say, when in doubt- play for time.

Nick Bantock

#6. Alright, listen up. I'm supposed to give you some fatherly and wise advice at this time in your life. Listen up, if you're wondering if a boy's thinking about you, he's not. He's thinking about sex, or he's hungry: those are the only two options.

Eric Taylor

#7. State and federal studies indicate that thousands of water and sewer systems may be too old to function properly.

Charles Duhigg

#8. You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured! I was cured alright.

Anthony Burgess

#9. Just 'cause a body says somethin' don't make it so. You know who you are, and they can't change that no matter what them cacklin' hens is to say." He tapped him on the chest. "What matters is what's in here, son. Not a soul can take that away from you.

Tracy Winegar

#10. One guy wanted an outline of my foot. Another guy wanted locks of my hair.

Nicole Eggert

#11. If you can't do what you really want to do, then do the next best thing!

Stacey Culpepper

#12. If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

William Shakespeare

#13. In delay there lies no plenty.

Shirley Jackson

#14. Your father says a wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop.

Deborah Harkness

#15. You know how we tell the good guys from the bad guys? The bad guys shoot at us.
Best lesson my father ever taught me.

Rick Yancey

#16. At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#17. And you can do far more for us from America than you can from here, where you're just another defenseless Christian. So if you really want to help, Inas, then you'll go to the very best school you can get into and earn the best grades you can.

Zack Love

#18. We need people of all ages in our lives who will listen, encourage, and pray.

Sophie Hudson

#19. Don't jail your imagination. You cannot imagine beyond your desires. You can't unleash your imagination without the SEEDs of desire.

Assegid Habtewold

#20. Retaliation is not the answer. You're going to have to deal with mean backstabbing girls your whole life, you need to learn to be smart enough to rise above, okay?
Did you kick her ass? Good girl!

Richard Castle

#21. [I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has a stump where something necessary was amputated.

Steve Toltz