John Henry Holliday didn't have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own.… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
As tough as it was for us with my father gone, my mother and sister were always pushing me. They even let… — Henrikh Mkhitaryan Copy Share Image
If you grow up and your mother or father is a doctor you talk about medicine at the dinner table. In our… — Caroline Mulroney Copy Share Image
Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us O'er the world's tempestuous sea; Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Father always said that it didn't matter what you looked like or what you wear. It was who you were that mattered.” — Sarah Dalton Copy Share Image
I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment. — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
“On this particular day her father, the vicar of a parish on the sea-swept outskirts of Lower Wessex, and a widower, was… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
You know, my father was a great encouragement for me because he spoke out for women's rights, he spoke out for girl's… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
The day my father died seemed longer than my entire childhood. The day I felt my first success seemed fleeting, hour-long, not… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother had aspirations to become a concert singer. Her Methodist Minister father didn't approve of young girls leaving home until they… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
When I saw you touching annother guy my mind just conbusted and it was almos as if we had never met and… — Luke Collins Copy Share Image
“The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence—Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse… — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Copy Share Image
Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came… — Archilochus Copy Share Image
My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble. — John Waters Copy Share Image
My father served as an Army doctor in West Germany in the late '50s and early '60s. As a result, he and… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
It's like my parents' musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It's their fault for making me so emotional… — Chet Faker Copy Share Image
Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law. — Don Baylor Copy Share Image
On the Internet, on IMDB, they've got that my middle name as Archibald. I don't have a middle name! My father doesn't… — Bill Paxton Copy Share Image
“the Son, but the Son the visible of the Father. And for this reason all spake with Christ when He was present… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
“He, therefore, who was known, was not a different being from Him who declared “No man knoweth the Father,” but one and… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
That strong mentality of turning fear into power, turning difficulty into something good, turning negatives into positives, that is something that comes… — Ruben Dias Copy Share Image
Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love for another… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I learned a lot when I was 14 and 15 years old doing chores inside and outside the household, and as a… — Jack Kingston Copy Share Image
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
I believe that acting is a talent while being a great person encompasses so much more: being a good father, a good… — Michael Ealy Copy Share Image
“Now I know my father was a certified man of God, but at a fairly young age, I decided that when it… — Susan Gregg Gilmore Copy Share Image
The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people. — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
“How should man live save as glass To let the white light without flame, the Father, pass Unstained ...” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image