“You will have to man up,” we tell our sons. “Anyone can make a baby, but it takes a man to be… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to… — Euripides Copy Share Image
My parents separated when I was two, and then my father passed away, so I never really knew that side of the… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father… — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it and they will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I… — Allegra Huston Copy Share Image
The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
That's another thing about my father. He made me very conscious of the fact I wasn't very good and I had to… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
Not only was Cain called upon to suffer, but because of his wickedness, he became the father of an inferior race. A… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
“For if one Father is common to us all, and every good thing that can fall to our lot comes from Him,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I have two definitions of success - one on the basketball court and one in my personal life. In basketball, success means… — Dwyane Wade Copy Share Image
For me, everything is about Jesus and Father and the Holy Spirit, and relationships, and life is an adventure of faith lived… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My father was released from jail, after more than three years of imprisonment, in 1971. Without wasting any time, he wanted to… — Radha Ravi Copy Share Image
But it was definitely a car trailing me and quickly I prepared myself for a great dash. I began quickening my step… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in… — W. G. Sebald 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
The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Jesus said...i'm the only way to permanent peace, im the only way to permanent joy, im the only way to eternal life,… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the… — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
“I’m still having trouble believing that he’s mine—that he’s actually Owen’s father—that somehow the fucking universe got its shit together and delivered… — T.L. Swan Copy Share Image
I promise just to serve two terms. Republicans do it differently. They just have the son repeat the father's whole first term. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
“Well, in that case, no. I’m not your father. But if you go with another definition, meaning ‘a man who wants to… — Jenna Evans Welch Copy Share Image
What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
I grew up playing tennis. My father has a tennis court at his home in Bel Air and I was always watching… — Redfoo Copy Share Image
My parents gave me the gift of love and support. They told me never to question what my heart wanted and to… — Tara Lipinski Copy Share Image
At my dad's funeral I didn't cry when my dad died. I did it years later when I forgave him, which I've… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated,… — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to shearing shed.… — Jason Clarke Copy Share Image
You can look at founding father Alexander Hamilton nevertheless assuring - assuring - the countrymen in Federalist 78 that the role of… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
In that portion of time where my parents were together, I got to see great love, great loyalty, and teamwork. — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
My parents said to us, practically on a daily basis, that we were as good as anyone else on this earth, and… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
“He is wise who makes the desire of the Father his work. As a fisher of men —he searches, gathers and receives… — Dennis S. Ametepe Copy Share Image
My father gave me a copy of 'Seven Years in Tibet,' and that's what turned me on to Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism. — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
My father and I share a passion for how things work, which in my case took the form of schoolboy fascination with… — David Linley Copy Share Image
A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it:… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
