I thought of my father's wisdom, as though it were buried in a box under a tree. As in the old song… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
Surrogate fathers and other male figures stepped in to give guidance after my dad died. Businessmen taught me to honor my commitments;… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
If I were president? First thing I'd do is take care of the schoolteachers. I'm not saying we should start 'em out… — Carmelo Anthony Copy Share Image
I believe that at the beginning of the life of every artist there is some kind of trauma. We have a problem… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
“Before I was born my father disowned me. You know those ones who get the females pregnant, and then say the baby… — Drexel Deal Copy Share Image
That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
When there is a respect for small things, there will be an even greater respect towards the bigger things. When there is… — Elder Paisios of Mount Athos Copy Share Image
I remember, when I was doing 'Nicholas Nickleby', James Archer came to see me at the interval and said, 'My father would… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He… — Max Weinberg Copy Share Image
I had no more conception of what it meant to be a forester than the man in the moon…But at least a… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
My dad was a complicated man. He was a huge racist, my dad, but he still tried to be a good father,… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
in the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart... It's motto is --" My… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Nodding, Cery strode to the door and stepped through. Though the burly guards eyes him suspiciously, Cery smiled back. Never make enemies… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
The only guy that speaks at any sort of depth is, in my mind, Eminem. He's a guy that does music that… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“It's not like you're becoming a born-again Christian or teetotal or an accountant or something you can stop being after a while.… — Tim Relf Copy Share Image
But at the same time, my parents always encouraged my brother and me to be happy with what we were doing. My… — Jonathan Groff Copy Share Image
“She stood by the bed and stroked her father's hand, knowing how desperately afraid he must feel at this moment. He'd always… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“Philip came gradually to know the people he was to live with, and by fragments of conversation, some of it not meant… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I am not anti-man. I am married to a man... I have a father and a brother... I love men. But there… — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
If psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaism’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is the late… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
I was pretty much a single-father for most of my daughter India's life. Looking back, were there things I could've done better?… — Eric Benet Copy Share Image
“He and Onno had once come to the conclusion that you had to decide for yourself whether after your death you wanted… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
My father, Dennis Popham, was a very handsome, talented artist, and as my mother always reminds me, 'someone who had wonderful style.'… — Emilia Wickstead Copy Share Image
I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and… — Willi Smith Copy Share Image
One of my earliest memories is my father telling me to behave because I'm about to meet and work with the greatest… — Sean Maguire Copy Share Image
In our search to obtain relief from the stresses of life, may we earnestly seek ways to simplify our lives. May we… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
It's a complicated thing, knowing how much pain my father caused in my life and the lives of others whom I love,… — Hope Solo Copy Share Image
But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of… — Jessica Maxwell Copy Share Image
The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
My father was a TV scriptwriter. He would perform his dialogue out loud, while my mum transcribed it at the typewriter. So… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
Giving consistent effort in the little things in day-to-day life leads to true greatness. Specifically, it is the thousands of little deeds… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa,… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
I think we all have something in our life's experience that makes us feel different. It's whether we have a gay parent… — Amy Richards Copy Share Image
They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
He was a very strict father, which in a way has helped me to become who I am today. He never pampered… — Ram Charan Copy Share Image
