I would think that to people like my father, and the people of his generation, Popeye is like a male priapist. So… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
My father's father fought to free Crete from the Turks, who expelled my mother from her ancestral home in Asia Minor in… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
“Quoting Father Seraphim: Our life hangs only by a breath. It is the thread that links you to the Father, the Source,… — Jean-Yves Leloup Copy Share Image
When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
“But in the end I'd marry her to the one she herself loved. To a father, the man his daughter falls in… — Fyodor Dostoevksy Copy Share Image
On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors. — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
My father was a very good golfer and he got me started early. My grandfather played, too. It was just something that… — Steve Kroft Copy Share Image
Just as order gave life and beauty to the earth when it was dark and void, so it does to us. Obedience… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“MY FATHER , GLENN VERNON MARTIN , died in 1997 at age eighty-three, and afterward his friends told me how much they… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The authorities teach that next to the first emanation, which is the Son coming out of the Father, the angels are most… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Jesus is the prime exemplar of life in God's presence. He lived out of an awareness of the identity God had given… — Kenneth Boa Copy Share Image
Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
So if you don't like your life, change it. How would you change it? You decide. There's no action without first decision.… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I'm a great lover of children. I never thought that one day I'd actually be a father, but I'm very pleased that… — Elton John Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, we always had music playing in our household. I enjoy spending time with my father singing. — Pattie Brooks Copy Share Image
I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
All kids love to get dirty, but if I wandered into the garage, my father would say: 'Son, you're not going to… — Bruce Forsyth Copy Share Image
Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me,… — Tom Brady Copy Share Image
Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an… — Mahesh Babu Copy Share Image
It's a tough one for me, politics. I grew up in a house where my father is a Christian book salesman and… — James Corden Copy Share Image
I look back and see the integrity my dad had, but I didn't gravitate toward that. I don't see how I didn't. — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
We don't consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They're still magical characters, and the fact they've… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
As a father, husband of a schoolteacher and governor of Louisiana, I am committed to improving education for all children in Louisiana. — John Bel Edwards Copy Share Image
I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the… — Mahesh Babu Copy Share Image
Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When I was working on the music of 'Jaan-E-Mann' and 'Umrao Jaan,' my father was hospitalised. I had to shuttle between hospital… — Anu Malik Copy Share Image
No one ever saw all of him. It took me nearly four decades to allow my father his shadows, his reserve, to… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before. — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family… — Ertharin Cousin Copy Share Image
One minute, you're dropping your teenage son off to a festival, and the next, you're changing a nappy, but I love the… — Ant Middleton Copy Share Image
The best gift I could give my father would be to represent India in the Olympics. If I can do that in… — Jeev Milkha Singh Copy Share Image
I'll never be able to fill my father's or grandfather's shoes, but hopefully I can stand on their shoulders and reach farther. — Philippe Cousteau, Jr Copy Share Image
