Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a submarine that I desperately wanted to buy in the toy shop. My father said, 'No, you go and build… — David Linley Copy Share Image
Working with my father [Stephen Hawking ] is a great thrill - he has the amazing ability to hold enormous amounts of… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Don't confuse [Father's Day] with Valentine's Day, and here's why. Boy, will you creep him out. I can just tell you from… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Most of my childhood memories of my father are of being ignored. I was his namesake, but nothing I did ever pleased… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Most kids just follow the cycle. My grandfather didn't finish high school. My father didn't, and I didn't. But you can break… — Eric D. Thomas Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because… — William Cornelius Van Horne Copy Share Image
Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. . To be right with God the Judge is… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us… — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed… — Oliver Wolcott Copy Share Image
My mother was scared every time I drove. But my father was a Scottish karting champion and bought me my first kart… — David Coulthard Copy Share Image
All that the Father giveth me SHALL COME... Here, therefore, the Lord Jesus positively determineth to put forth such a sufficiency of… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“I never questioned anything Yeshin did in those days. “Get your dogs and come take a walk with me,” had been enough… — K.S. Villoso Copy Share Image
When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant, and you sort of get a list from… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of… — George Weinberg Copy Share Image
The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
I acquired long-lived parents. My mother died at 94. Father died at 90, holding a glass of whisky. I think that's the… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
Even after going to law school, following the footsteps of my father (an accomplished lawyer and judge at the time); I realized… — Carlos Machado Copy Share Image
Our loving Heavenly Father wants us to become more like him. God understands that we get there not in an instant, but… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and… — Margaret Whiting Copy Share Image
I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
My father was a bad boy, a rascal. That's what him do for a living. He just go around and have a… — Peter Tosh Copy Share Image
I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
“My father believed that the truth was like a wild animal--just let it loose and it will defend itself.” — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
As I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop… — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
I am a father, and I know the feel of being a father. Why wouldn't I want my gay friends to also… — Juan Pablo Galavis Copy Share Image
“My father will hunt you for taking his power if he finds out,” he said into the frigid dark. “And kill you… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“...when it comes to defining adulthood, nothing has made me feel more grown-up than knowing that one of the two people in… — Jean Hannah Edelstein Copy Share Image
Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one.… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
“He was the child of a father who was not his father; but also the child of a time which damaged reality… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Our philosophy is always to search for the best quality. That is something our father taught us. It's one way to be… — Pier Luigi Loro Piana Copy Share Image
I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present -… — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy. — Sally Hawkins Copy Share Image
I've always had a bawdy sense of humor. My father was a traveling salesman and he would bring jokes home. He would… — Betty White Copy Share Image
There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner.… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image