Quotes About Paternal Love

#1. The illusions of paternal love are perhaps no less poignant than those of the other kind; many daughters regard their fathers merely as the old men who leave their fortunes to them.

Marcel Proust

#2. [Lear] is the universal image of the unwisdom and destructiveness of paternal love at its most ineffectual, implacably persuaded of its own benignity, totally devoid of self-knowledge, and careening onward until it brings down the person it loves best, and its world as well.

Harold Bloom

#3. That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.

Hosea Ballou

#4. It is now clear that faith is a singular pledge of paternal love, treasured up for the sons whom he has adopted.

John Calvin

#5. Make daily small deposits ... Our lives are defined by small acts of greatness.

Steve Gutzler

#6. Success in relationships takes death to the flesh. Singles stop begging for what you won't die for and couples start dying so your marriage can live.

Hope D. Blackwell

#7. To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less than His children. For every father must discipline His children, and paternal discipline is itself a mercy, a fatherly expression of love.

Scott Hahn

#8. Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#9. All cats are grey in the dark, he had written in one chapter. So remember that how much you can see of a situation depends on how much light you can shine upon it.

Alexander McCall Smith

#10. A love as tender as that of a lover for his mistress dwells, undoubtedly, in some paternal hearts toward a son.

Alexandre Dumas

#11. He figures she must contain a carbon core. A soul as hard as a diamond. So what happens when a diamond finally breaks?

Blake Crouch

#12. A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.

Martin Filler

#13. Faith is indispensable for success. Faith is induced and strengthened by the instructions you give your subconscious mind.

Napoleon Hill

#14. I'm calling because that's what women expect men to do. You expect us to call at least once a day, proving we're capable of thinking of nothing but you when we're not. We're thinking of work.

Kristen Ashley

#15. The feet of ghosts never touch the ground.

Jandy Nelson

#16. Raven: "You don't have a hot date, do you?"
Alexander: "Yes. I do, as a matter of fact."
Raven: "You do?"
Alexander: "Yes, and it is almost ending.

Ellen Schreiber

#17. 'Tickle Monster' is an interactive book and, by the nature of the story, bonds the parent and child through tickling and laughter.

Josie Bissett

#18. The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#19. In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#20. We shouldn't have a program where we just say that we're going to take care of the world's refugees. Nobody in the Middle East is doing anything. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait - all the Gulf nations are doing nothing.

Rand Paul

#21. My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was 'Caroselli' and it was changed in the mid '50s. I think they wanted to assimilate, which was pretty common, although I love the name 'Caroselli.'

Steve Carell

#22. Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#23. I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was so deep and his knee was so snug that I slept.

Harper Lee