“He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left… — William Penn Copy Share Image
I existed in a space where my mother was a black woman and my father was a white man. And that's how… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that… — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
None of us will honor our Heavenly Father and our Savior more than by serving as a devoted, compassionate missionary, "For them… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“CHARADE PARADE A 'Special Day' once a year creates an excuse for neglect on the other 365 days for mothers, fathers & veterans” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
You know, coming from a broken dysfunctional family, you know, it's something that I always aspired to be - a good husband… — Paul Wall Copy Share Image
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I was three years old, and I walked onstage during a performance that my father was a tenor in 'The Barber of… — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
“It's because I haven't courage,' said Samuel. 'I could never quite take the responsibility. When the Lord God did not call my… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think I got a complete picture of what the lives of scientists are like. My father is of the opinion that… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
'Dark Side of the Moon' was one of my father's favorite records, which I obviously didn't understand when I was young. To… — Apparat Copy Share Image
My favorite Founding Fathers, Christians like John Adams, were absolutely appalled by slavery, and did not own slaves. I think we're going… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Either Jesus had a father, or he didn't. The question is a scientific one, and scientific evidence, if any were available, would… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Because of my father's job, the family moved a lot. I was born in London, but we moved to Liverpool because the… — Cliff Williams Copy Share Image
Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the… — William Osler Copy Share Image
What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
The price of liberty is something more than eternal vigilance. There must also be eternal advance. We can save the rights we… — Henry Demarest Lloyd Copy Share Image
“Anyway, I went home and searched all of my father’s pockets and drawers until I found some weed. The revelation that my… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
When we came to this country, unfortunately, my father lost his job, and we were this close to destitution. We were put… — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose),… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a… — Boomer Esiason Copy Share Image
The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country. — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so… — Benjamin Watson Copy Share Image
My grandparents died two months apart, like, marriage forever, all my aunts and uncles, all my brothers are married. — Eva Marcille Copy Share Image
I call myself Zimerican. I was born in the Midwest to Zimbabwean parents. My father was a professor at Grinnell College in… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'. — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was… — Valentino Rossi Copy Share Image
My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I've been aware of her grief… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The confidence in my ability to be a performer, a steeliness about survival... I learnt all those things from my dad. — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable — Homer Copy Share Image
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
