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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. -- H. G. Wells
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. -- Harold Coffin
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. -- Laurence J. Peter
Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins. -- Major Taylor
Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play. -- Fred Allen
I'm going to go with ZZ Top -- they're my faves . . . because of the whole thing that they do with the guitars and the old Father Time beards. -- Robin Thicke
It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes. -- Robert Breault
I blame Mother Nature two-faced bitch and Father Time bloody bastard .Yep those misogynistic killjoys have cut off my pocket money and left me grounded.With those two authoritarian heavyweights ganging up what chance does a woman have I aks you -- Kathy Lette
I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there. -- Flavor Flav
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. -- William Congreve
A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence. -- Howard W. Hunter
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind. -- Giordano Bruno
You can't stop father time... but you can show [him] down. -- Karl Malone
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. -- E. B. White
I'm an actor, a husband, a father of two, and a full-time Avenger. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?' -- Alexander MacLaren
My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together. -- Joe Wright
My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons. -- Roger Moore
My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time. -- Haile Gebrselassie
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time. -- Alan Valentine
Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers? -- Laurence Sterne
The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time. -- Ben Gibbard
As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
I'm also a devoted father, and you see that side of me at the same time. -- Bill Goldberg
A father, finding time for what is most important is the true marker of a successful person. -- Rick Warren
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. -- Anais Nin
It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again. -- Tim Hansel
Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer. -- Oswald Chambers
Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father -- Tony Randall
My father documented on film for the last time what Tibet looked like before the world got there. -- Peter Sis
The last time I put on this uniform (Cincinnati), I think I was eight, for a father-son game. -- Ken Griffey, Jr.
I'd pick - my father would bring home about six newspapers. We had 10 in Boston at the time. -- Nat Hentoff
When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time. -- Diane Lane
I'm a father myself for the first time in my life, and I had very very loving parents. -- David Keith
By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone. -- Dick Cavett
I've been the type of father who tries desperately to be perfect but doesn't succeed all the time. -- Max von Sydow
By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong. -- Charles Wadsworth
My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands. -- Hermione Gingold
We had a great time on the bench talking about crime, mother-stabbin', father raping, all kinds of groovy things. -- Arlo Guthrie
A father's calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity. -- Ezra Taft Benson
The most effective guard against delinquency is a father who is at the same time both strict and loving. -- Sheldon Glueck
I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis. -- Phil Collins
I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Father's Day makes me wish I could talk to my Dad just one more time, instead of all the time. -- Anthony Jeselnik
My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978. -- Roberto Benigni
People ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown. -- Tom Hanks
My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away. -- Rodney Dangerfield
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When I was growing up, we always had music playing in our household. I enjoy spending time with my father singing. -- Pattie Brooks
I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time. -- Arabella Weir
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth. -- Francois Rabelais
Chose to converse with your Father in Heaven often. Make time every day to share your thoughts and feelings with Him. -- Richard G. Scott
Hurt me to see the pain across my mothers face, every time my father's fist would put her in her place. -- Christina Aguilera
I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious. -- Orlando Bloom
I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure. -- Bill Ayers
People have a hard time believing that, but not having a father around, being shy, I just never participated in sports much. -- Chuck Norris
Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long. -- Carlo Collodi
The first film I was in was called 'Straight Time.' I was five-years old, and I was playing my father's son. -- Jake Busey
Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life. -- Wyclef Jean
When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had. -- Allegra Huston
[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy. -- Mavis Gallant
Father says it will come in time. "Time heals," he says. I don't tell him that I don't know what time is. -- Mary E. Pearson
Every time you get on your knees and pray to God, 'Holy' keeps the respect and reverence while 'Father' brings Him close & intimate. -- Ravi Zacharias
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. -- John Ciardi
My father Time is weak and gray With waiting for a better day; See how idiot-like he stands, Fumbling with his palsied hands! -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
My father's a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize. -- John Hurt
The thing about living without a father if he's always gone is that it takes a long time to realize he isn't coming home. -- Stephen Rodrick
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof. -- Rodney Dangerfield
Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle. -- Rose Kennedy
I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast -- Francis Ford Coppola
Maybe it's time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I'm not sure how. -- David Bellavia
Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.' -- Michael Gurian
Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school. -- Susan Orlean
My father had slowed down playing a little... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put his guitar down, I pick it up. -- David Edwards
My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this. -- Ziggy Marley
I grew up watching science fiction with my dad. It was kind of our little secret. It was our bonding time as father and daughter. -- Katee Sackhoff
I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time. -- Wynton Marsalis
You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that? -- Jeremy Piven
I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is. -- Alexa Ray Joel
My mother was so house proud that when my father got up to sleepwalk she had the bed made by the time he got back. -- Chic Murray
When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days - thats a long time for me. -- Carlos Santana
I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time. -- Missi Pyle
I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. -- William Faulkner
My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that. -- Carrie Fisher
My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time. -- Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time. -- Peter Noone
My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids at any given time. -- Steve Coogan
He lied all the time even when there was no need to lie [...] He needed a _history_, a sense of self. [Burnside on his father, p. 22] -- John Burnside
My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there. -- Lady Gaga
My father once told me, and it's stuck with me to this day: As you walk through life, every time you fart it pushes you forward. -- Bob Saget
It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before me. -- Nico
I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict. -- Joe Strummer
I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time. -- Gore Vidal
I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time. -- Michael Douglas
I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time. -- Eva Longoria
My father and I used to watch movies all the time. That was our bonding time, so thats when I kind of fell in love with acting. -- Jessica Barth
My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time. -- Robert Harris
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
As time goes on you are given responsibility and other things to deal with. You become a husband and a father and there's another shirt of stuff. -- Mike Ness
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all. -- Alice Walker
When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him. -- Carrie Fisher
Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?''That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him. -- George R. R. Martin
I've been involved with law enforcement for some time. My father was in law enforcement. I went through the training for Homeland Security. I enjoy it very much. -- Lou Ferrigno
When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about. -- Alan King
My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration. -- Anne Lamott
After a few years of not talking, I tried reaching out to my father, but by that time he was already a few inches beyond my outstretched fingers. -- Jarod Kintz
While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox. -- Barry McGuigan
One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you. -- Carrie Vaughn
So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation. -- Barbara Broccoli
Our loving Heavenly Father wants us to become more like him. God understands that we get there not in an instant, but by taking one step at a time. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to us. -- Helen Vendler
Every person on the earth today lived at one time in heavenly realms. We walked with our Heavenly Father. We knew Him. We heard His voice. We loved Him. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound. -- Laura Linney
When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa, but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique. -- Lizzo
I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen. -- Matthew McConaughey
I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States. -- Bob Matsui
I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States. -- Bob Matsui
I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it. -- Julie Andrews
We lived above my father's launderette. Both my parents ran the launderette, but my father was also a factory supervisor, and my mum worked part-time in an accounts office. -- Sanjeev Bhaskar

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