Some men are Baptists, others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man. — Jean Shepherd Copy Share Image
Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and… — Origen Copy Share Image
Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School,… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
My father is a teacher; my mother was a telecom employee. I come from Palermo; I was raised in Ethiopia. I am… — Luca Guadagnino Copy Share Image
At times some may think that no one cares--but someone always cares! Your Heavenly Father will not leave you to struggle alone,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother… — David Lee Copy Share Image
My father was my best friend. He was conservative and traditional, but at the same time, he wasn't strict. — Randhir Kapoor Copy Share Image
How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
What makes Will the best father in the world to me is that he's there, not just there in a way that's… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I… — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
My father was a military judge, and my mother was a psychiatric social worker. My brother and sister and I were moved… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory. — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Women are different from men in major, major ways. I have found more courage in women than you could ever find in… — Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Often when I'm trying to make tough decisions, I rely on the lessons my father taught me and ask myself, 'What Would… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
In 1986, I had gone on a hunger strike with Anand Patwardhan rooting for an alternative land for slum dwellers. My mother… — Shabana Azmi Copy Share Image
Anytime my father, who would visit sometimes, would come around, my goal was to make him laugh because I thought that would… — Tony Hinchcliffe Copy Share Image
My first club was FT Gern. I joined through my parents and friends. My father played for them and a friend from… — Philipp Lahm Copy Share Image
When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My… — Ruud Gullit Copy Share Image
My father was a forest entomologist, which means he was aware that spraying forests for spruce budworm was counterproductive in that it… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
My greatest accomplishment is succeeding in life, and I owe that to my family and twenty years in the military. I don't… — Tom Johnson Copy Share Image
My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting.… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Now, now," my father said. "Let's just get the bags." This was typical. My father, the lone male in our estrogen-heavy household,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
As we look for humor, seek for the eternal perspective, understnd the principle of compensation, and draw near to our Heavenly Father,… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image