My father was a mailman. His father was a coal miner. My mother's mother could barely speak English. And their son today… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
The Lord has directed, Bring up your children in light and truth. To me, there is no more important human effort. Being… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the… — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
My father was a taxidermist, not a run-of-the-mill profession for a West Indian immigrant. Having given up on becoming a vet, he… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
My father had a very unusual psychic ability, he could detect water. It's called divining. He would use a Y-shaped U-branch, and… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
The idea of being the Substitute in offering an atonement to satisfy the demands of God’s law for others was something Christ… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense… — Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless campaign… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale… — Peter York Copy Share Image
It's not that we have too much mother, but too little father. We can't forgive our mothers for taking the place of… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Don't drop him," said Peter's mother to his father. "Don't you dare drop him." She was laughing. "I will not," said his… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
No one wanted that marriage, no one. Even Mahatma Gandhi wasn't happy about it. As for my father...it's not true that he… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I used to watch my father play the guitar and sing when I was a little boy. By the time I was… — Trini Lopez Copy Share Image
Math-thinking, I would say, encourages flipping and substituting letters in words (in the novel, one of the boys double-majors in math and… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
We laugh, we cry, we work, we play, we love, we live. And then we die. ... And dead we would remain… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
As a disciple of my father's, I was certain I wanted to include one of his own raga creations on 'Home', as… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
... if we say that the Father is the origin of the Son and greater than the Son, we do not suggest… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
Before I proposed to my now-wife, I was understandably nervous. My father suggested that I take stock of all of my experiences… — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
While we tend to equate motherhood solely with maternity, in the Lord’s language, the word 'mother' has layers of meaning...Mothe rhood is… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
My father could be very strict, but very fair. His father was the same. We all respected my grandfather; he was the… — Azzedine Alaia Copy Share Image
Please know that your Father in Heaven loves you and so does His Only Begotten Son. When they speak to you--and They… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
People should organize people to just turn up and participate in the democratic process. Knock on doors. They may not be old… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Precision marching is less important for the bridal party than maintaining the proper facial expresssions: The bridegroom must look awed; the bridesmaids,… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
My father has always prayed that his words would reflect God's standard of truth as the basis to claim, 'I have given… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for… — Homer Copy Share Image
In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
My father was dead by the time I became a writer, and he would have had a heart attack if he had… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
We think it would be wise in you to try to git [sic] influence by offering to print a paper in favor… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Your friends are at the house.' I sit up, straight. 'Who'? 'I don't know. Weird people. The Sullivan girl, whose father got… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
A Japanese diplomat and jujitsu expert, Konde Maeda Kome, came to Brazil in the 1920s and there he met my grandfather, Gaston… — Rickson Gracie Copy Share Image
As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. That Spirit is real. To those who have experienced its workings,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image