I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
How often do you get a movie where the coolest character has your own real last name? I played Bob Morales as… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
McEwan's Atonement…truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past…. The… — Noah Richler Copy Share Image
My mother worked for more than a decade before marrying. She went to New York City to get a master's degree. And… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
The great thing that I appreciate - the fact that my godfather, William 'Sticky' Jackson, was a Tuskegee Airman because my father… — Allen West Copy Share Image
When we escape from this earth, do we suppose we are going to heaven? Do you suppose you are going to the… — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
A father draws boundaries and calls a halt, whenever necessary. As I didn't have that, I was able to stay childishly naive… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Jesus was not a whisperer. No one ever saw Him close to His neighbor's ear, looking stealthily around lest some one should… — Samuel Logan Brengle Copy Share Image
“Well, I divide the father question into three separate categories. First, there's the sire. He makes a baby, that's it. Doesn't necessarily… — Scribe Mozell Copy Share Image
“It is the child of avarice, the brother of inequity, and father of mischief. It has been the ruin of many worthy… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks,… — Willie Mays Copy Share Image
I assume the Spirit is always whispering, "Abba", to God's children, assuring them that they are safe in His care. And he… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
I was very dedicated and serious about fighting. I'd read about all the fighters. I found out where they came from, knew… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
I swore I would never get involved in my dad's life. But then he started blowing it. So I had to get… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a… — George Mason Copy Share Image
We lived in a very modest house. My father drove modest cars, we didn't travel, we didn't do any of the things… — Neal Gabler Copy Share Image
I counsel you, in the words of Jesus Christ, to "watch and pray I always lest ye enter into temptation; for Satan… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut. He… — Kangana Ranaut Copy Share Image
“With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“My mother looks at me with love and understanding, and I realize: she knows what my father did. She knows what I… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Following Michael Brown's death, I went to Ferguson and met with his parents. I stood with them as they tried to hold… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
“The old feelings rumbled through his belly, taking root in his aching loins. He was too crippled to pleasure himself anymore. He… — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Ian’s the black sheep.” “I thought I was the black sheep,” said Seth, sounding almost hurt. “No. You’re the unfocused artistic one.… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
My father was from a secular Jewish family and my mother from a nominally Christian (Episcopalian) one. They were not religious as… — Mike Berenstain Copy Share Image
When my German-American mother married my black-American Indian father, her dad and stepmom disowned her immediately. They would have been upset had… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
He [my father] didn't have a basement workshop as such, but I know that he did build things, construct things, repair things.… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands… — Danny Huston Copy Share Image
Eventually one day some of us will end up with a baby daddy and that's okay but if he choose not to… — Kola Deng Copy Share Image
Your Heavenly Father will help you find the right path as you seek His guidance. Remember though, after you pray you must… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father's mother. She was strict - the kind who… — Tina Turner Copy Share Image
But still, here are the words Despereaux Tilling spoke to his father. He said, "I forgive you, Pa!" And he said those… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“The concept of leadership is abused by people who think a person becomes a leader when he grows grey hair, put into… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
My father played one of the first electric guitars in England. He built his own in 1940, because you couldn't buy them… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
“Yes, but Father," he wanted to say from the back seat of a rapidly filling bus, "you never told us how to… — Tomson Highway Copy Share Image