A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I've always liked the idea of being a father. And I've always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
My father is a Japanese-American and my mother is a Caucasian. So obviously, New Year's Day is big for our family, you… — Scott Fujita Copy Share Image
If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
O Heavenly Father, convert my religion from a name to a principle! Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
“For my mother, Nedda Previtera Cashore, who has a meatball Grace, and my father, J. Michael Cashore, who is Graced with losing… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“Madeline (said the Countess in a solemn voice), in my concern for your father, I spoke unguardedly; and I already repent having… — Regina Maria Roche Copy Share Image
What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself. — Domhnall Gleeson Copy Share Image
I usually don't have a burger, a brat, and a steak but it is 4th of July. And I need the energy… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Interestingly, many Indian companies where there's a father-and-son combination are being run as joint CEO organizations because the father has not given… — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
THE FATHER: But don't you see that the whole trouble lies here? In words, words. Each one of us has within him… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
“Dads. Do you not realize that your child needs to feel your skin on his? Do you not realize the incredible and… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
“Technically he is old enough to be her father; but then, technically one can be a father at twelve.” — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son. — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
