Because my father was a coward who could not give me his name, My mother was selfish / who compulsion to gave… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
The first recorded instruction given to Adam after the Fall dealt with the eternal principle of work. The Lord said: "In the… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
Everything I ever learnt as a small boy came from my father, and I never found anything he ever told me to… — Irving Pichel Copy Share Image
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I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Just tell me, Percy, do you still have the birthday gift I gave you last summer?" I nodded and pulled out my… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Be ever gentle with the children God has given you; watch over them constantly; reprove them earnestly, but not in anger. In… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
Outside his office my father had a framed copy of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to his son's teacher, translated into… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
I've always been willing to take challenges, I grew up taking challenges: being an only child, having a mother, no father, I've… — Teddy Pendergrass Copy Share Image
“I drift off for a while. I don't know how long, but when I open my eyes, the Oscars are still on… — Kaui Hart Hemmings Copy Share Image
Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time.… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
My father actually lived next door to Hobie Alter [creator of the Hobie catamarans]. So growing up, we had prototypes and experimental… — Bo Derek Copy Share Image
I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the language, and, probably most… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
Ambati Rambabu walked with my father for 1,500 kilometres during his historic 'padayatra' before 2004 elections. It is because of the work… — Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy Copy Share Image
I always revered people that I thought had an idea and proceeded through with it. I guess I've been that way since… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
My parents and I entered the U.S. legally, but when it was time for our visa extension, we were turned down. Returning… — Leana S. Wen Copy Share Image
We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In Korea, a woman must first obey her father, then her husband when she becomes an ajuma, and finally obey her son… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
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My first act as president is a prayer. I ask you to bow your heads: Heavenly Father, we bow our heads and… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
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I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Our entire case as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints rests on the validity of this glorious First… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
My father had nine kids, seven boys and two girls, and my uncle had 21 kids, 11 boys and 10 girls. They… — Royce Gracie Copy Share Image
It’s funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother,… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen, today we're here to honor electricity, the charge that charges everything from those electrons snapping in our brain to… — Robin Green Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers realized that "the power to tax is the power to destroy," which is why they did not give the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's… — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
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I guess I've played a lot of failures, which is a Huston quality, I guess. I love losers, though, and have never… — Danny Huston Copy Share Image
My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary… — Immanuel Velikovsky Copy Share Image
[My father] had a massive middle-age breakdown. And left the family. And then it just completely fell apart. And my mother was… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image