My dad always taught me that silence is complicity, and that I must stand up for anyone who was being treated unfairly.… — Ashley Biden Copy Share Image
My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
They say that from the instant he lays eyes on her, a father adores his daughter. Whoever she grows up to be,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I… — Daniel Bruhl Copy Share Image
Some guys didn't have fathers. Some guys grew up with great dads but the weight of fatherhood shifts onto their shoulders because… — Matt Barnes Copy Share Image
Faith exists when absolute confidence in that which we cannot see combines with action that is in absolute conformity to the will… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Blood doesn't make you family. Hell, an only child can bleed. It's the sharing of pain that makes you family. 'Cause, you… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Southwest Bronx. Father an accountant, mother a schoolteacher. Brother was six years older, which explains why I… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
'A Daddy is not defined as the man, that conceived the child,but rather the man that extends his hands and time to… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
God the Father was there before man invented time, then God the Father created Jesus, God the Son, the Spiritual Technology Power… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all --… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I don’t actually don’t have any scenes with Michael Bolton. There’s an exposé done on Sue Sylvester, and he pops up… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
“Starke entered his house a detective, slipped off his shoes and became a husband and father. It was five in the morning.… — Aaron Dries Copy Share Image
My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I felt my faith was on again off again until I met Paula White, who saw that the Lord had other plans;… — Jonathan Cain Copy Share Image
(To Lucrezia Borgia) Do people say that I am both your father and your lover? Let the world, that heap of vermin… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And in the cool evenings after his mother had gone to bed, he learned to play a friendly game of cards, bluffing… — Victoria Wilcox Copy Share Image
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My story is similar to every ordinary Indian boy's tale. My father wanted me to become an engineer or a professional but… — Abhishek Banerjee Copy Share Image
I have never considered myself a writer in exile because I grew up outside of my own country, because my father was… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A mist. A great mist. It covered the entire kingdom. And everyone in it - the good people and the not so… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
There have been projects out there involving my father, but they've lacked a complete understanding of his philosophies and artistry. They haven't… — Shannon Lee Copy Share Image
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence… — George Catlin Copy Share Image
Because I have nothing else to live for. You told me of your brother’s betrayal. Imagine your own father calling out his… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it.… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When father was younger than me he came to New York to be in musicals and was in a number of them.… — Peter Vack Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would go on Sundays and play with Doc Cheatham. I was also playing in a band of teenagers led by… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Maybe it was the home tutoring, or the late start to formal schooling, or an overly cautious and protective upbringing, but in… — Charles K. Kao Copy Share Image
...I'm thirteen years old, and I think I'm at the crossroads of my life. I've got to make good between now and… — Mary Pickford Copy Share Image
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns' by Robert Jungk and 'Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!' by Richard Feynman were both books my father… — Baiju Bhatt Copy Share Image
“I can well imagine the extent of his relationship with my father,' Warner says, shaking his head. 'And that he has managed… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being a father can unreason your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun… — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
