My father is the most genial Midwestern guy imaginable, but for him, disaster lurks around every corner–financial ruin, squandered health, pyramid schemes, airbags failing to deploy–so he tends to use fear as a parenting tool to try to goad his daughters into being more prepared. When he retired, he reached new levels of preparedness, so his car contained bottled water, hand wipes, a roadside emergency kit with flares, books on tape, a coin dispenser, and two hand towels to use as makeshift bibs so he and my mother could drive and eat without making a mess. Jancee Dunn
He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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Jonathan Safran Foer
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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Cormac McCarthy
Your father is the only God. You can also become god but you must follow a simple rule and let that rule be made up of love.
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Santosh Kalwar
Ah God! What a loving father you are!
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Lailah Gifty Akita
God is my spiritual Father.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
More Quotes By Jancee Dunn
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I'm a sucker for a man who giggles–not a high-pitched serial-killer sort of giggle, but a lighthearted laugh.
My father is the most genial Midwestern guy imaginable, but for him, disaster lurks around every corner–financial ruin, squandered health, pyramid schemes, airbags failing to deploy–so he tends to use fear as a parenting tool to try to goad his daughters into being more prepared....
