My father always wanted me to be president of the United States, and his fallback position was that I not become a… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer. — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
I want to be an incredible father, an incredible husband and take great care of my wife and all my kids and… — Jordan Fisher Copy Share Image
It's not always easy for a father to understand the interests and ways of his son. It seems the songs of our… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot… — Ira Levin Copy Share Image
I picked up the Puerto Rican accent from my father, and my sister picked up my mother's very clear, concise, and slow… — Alanna Ubach Copy Share Image
We realize the indivisibility of the earth - its soil, mountains, rivers, forests, climate, plants, and animals - and respect it collectively… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
My father is doing a radio program - classical music. He has a beautiful speaking voice and that's his passion in life,… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I grew up always around music through my father - I would play in music studios with him as I was growing… — Domino Kirke Copy Share Image
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but,… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
I had a big family - two older sisters and a younger brother. My family was like moving around a lot so… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater.… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we our given, is our society. Your education, and your… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
“During the last week of her father's life, Blanca stayed home with him. 'I didn't bathe. I didn't sleep. I sat in… — Kevin Renner Copy Share Image
The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
By the time Kafka was seven or eight years old, he already had a relatively dark view of the world derived from… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
The blood of Abraham, God's father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
When my father was posted to Malaysia, we'd take bacon-and-egg sandwiches in our backpacks and go hiking in the jungle or make… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men's magazines which the father thought was secret and which… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since they can make the baby sneeze and give it wind. — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
Just because you're a man doesn't mean that you can't raise your kid. I think that families should stay together, but if… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Comedy chose me. I always had this urge to be silly that I couldn't control. I remember my father having me read… — Craig Robinson Copy Share Image
That is not a crack house. It is a house with a family with a father and a mother and three sons… — Rob Ford Copy Share Image
My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
As you know, my father was for the inclusiveness and the betterment of society and the world. Certainly we recognize that there… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
Jesus disclosed that God is compassionate. Jesus spoke of God that way: "Be compassionate, as God is compassionate." Compassion is the primary… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
My whole life I saw how the violence my father created had come back to my family and I thought that I… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image