You pray best when the mirror of your soul is empty of every image except the Image of the Invisible Father. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
My father was at the forefront of the economic justice movement - fighting for and with Black women who were on welfare… — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
My weight was a huge issue as a young person. For my mother, for my father, and for my siblings... nobody in… — Wendy Williams Copy Share Image
I always watched professional football and my father played at an amateur level, but I didn't think I wanted to become a… — Jaap Stam Copy Share Image
“AND THERE HE WAS, clear as day as the door slid open. Recognized him instantly. Been waiting for him since I was… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
My grandmother and my mother raised me, but my dad made a conscious effort to be in my life - every weekend… — Craig David Copy Share Image
Growing up, I stayed in a child's place. My father was murdered when I was 20. I was a model and never… — LisaRaye McCoy-Misick Copy Share Image
I know some people whose father has basically spent their whole inheritance on scammers. He's old; he wants to feel important, like… — James Veitch Copy Share Image
My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my father is, like, first generation… — Eliza Dushku Copy Share Image
“Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We perversely see mother love as the problem--when it is all we have to sustain us--rather than blaming the fathers who have… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person. Self-discipline is a rigorous process… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
To be good Christians you have to contemplate the suffering humanity of Jesus. "How can we bear witness? Contemplate Jesus. How can… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So I often saw my father writing under the lamp, scratching his head to find something to write about, even telling her… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used as a substitute for my father. I hate to admit it, but I think a brick would… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and… — Ed Begley, Jr Copy Share Image
My father and I were really like a team. I mean, he was very supportive. He'd come to every single one of… — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
My parents always taught me not to be a good tennis player or the best in what I'm doing, but to be… — Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Copy Share Image
My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their… — Croesus Copy Share Image
My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
To play my father, his struggles, and how he overcame it all would require you to bring tears to my eyes. It… — Rohan Marley Copy Share Image
A father should be his daughter's first love and his son's first hero. But in this case, he's not the first love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I adored my father because he was dry and witty and funny. He would stand in the door of his shop greeting… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
My father is a first-generation Mexican-American and sports changed his life. It allowed him to basically live his dream, but it was… — Jessica Mendoza Copy Share Image
I'm very lonely now, Mary, For the poor make no new friends; But oh they love the better still The few our… — Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava Copy Share Image
The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I started talking to my therapist, we hit the source of my PTSD and the trauma that came from the things… — Charlamagne tha God Copy Share Image
“She realized that all of her adult life she had not ever thought of loving someone but only of being loved. She… — Consuelo Saah Baehr Copy Share Image
I want to be known as a winner, a guy that went out and did his job, was one-ninth of the equation… — Chipper Jones Copy Share Image
I had other coaches when I was younger but my father was there, following all my training. He has seen as much… — Caroline Garcia Copy Share Image
Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and… — Lauren Miller Copy Share Image
I have an evolving relationship with my father, and his memory, especially the older I get. I know that some of the… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
I love my heritage! I have my mother, who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
My father was also interested in stocks. When I was a young child, he and his friends would drink in the evening… — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
