Quotes about papa (16 Quotes)



    The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.


    Sir Anthony Hopkins has been earmarked to play Nobel prize-winning novelist Ernest Hemingway in a new film, Papa. To be directed by New Zealander Roger Donaldson, the project has yet to secure funding although the script is based on Hemingway's encounter with Denne Bart Petitclerc, America's youngest war correspondent in Korea, who was inspired by how Hemingway reported the Spanish civil war. Hemingway was a great writer and a great character, ... If anybody can play Hemingway, Tony Hopkins can.





    We called W.W. Schrimsher 'Papa.' He was the tallest guy and he was a character, ... When I was growing up, everybody in the whole community had a nickname, and he was the one who named them all. He could start calling people a name and it just fit.



    It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'


    And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee take away this cup from me nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt. Aramaic Greek Ab Father, Abba Papa, Daddy. Some think of God as kind of an exalted 'Daddy.' He loves us and is ready to help and bless us.

    I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.

    Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.




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