Reverend Father

Famous quotes containing the words reverend and/or father:

“Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father’s palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.”
—Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)

“You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s. He is more particular.... The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)