My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in the school, as well as… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I remember when I was 13 or 14 friends coming over and my father telling them the benefits of joining the army.… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
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That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than… — Miroslav Vitous Copy Share Image
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The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My first Hip Hop concert was at the Apollo at the age of 12. Southpaw's father was interviewing Queen Latifah and Treach… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
Each of us is a unique creation of our Heavenly Father. No two of us are completely alike. No one else has… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
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My dad will always criticize me. He doesn't care if it hurts my feelings. If I start acting a certain way, he… — Jorja Smith Copy Share Image
The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“One such father, decades ago now, John Quinn, a student at Humboldt State College in Arcata, California, made newspaper headlines when he… — Robert A. Bradley Copy Share Image
I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing… — Cyrus Broacha Copy Share Image
The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
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Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
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You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?' I have friends wherever there are companies of trees,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
It was hard for me, as a father, to imagine going through what my birth mom went through, to raise a child… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
I thank the Father that His Only Begotten Son did not say in defiant protest at Calvary, "My body is my own!"… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Willie said fathers were overrated, that my father could be one of thousands, most likely some rotten crotch creep that loved clip-on… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
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God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
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Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but… — John Adams Copy Share Image
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And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he… — John the Apostle Copy Share Image
She realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left a hollow place inside… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
I endeavored to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all his mercies to me, for his preservation of me through all… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
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