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Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men's magazines which the father thought was secret and which the kid knew all about.
My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.
Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.
The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.
Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.
The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.
Fathers need to be tough and tender...you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place.
No matter how old you become, I'll always hold your hand tenderly. just like how I held it on the day that you were born. I love you, son.
O Heavenly Father, convert my religion from a name to a principle! Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference to Thee!
What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.
Our Father's commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our lives, but He also brightens our summers.
I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that.
One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.
All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek...
Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.
A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject.
If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.
I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And sometimes I play basketball.
My father is so in love with making movies, and he'sso charismatic about it, that it's hard to be around him withoutwanting to make movies.
When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.
I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.
My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.
I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.
As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.
Worship must be - Christ centered, Holy Spirit led, a Response to the Father, about Intimacy and Service and always lead to Transformation!
The great challenge is to discover that we are truly invited to participate in the divine life of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.
In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture.
God the Father has reconciled His created but fallen world through the death of His Son, and renews it into a Kingdom of God by His Spirit.
My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.
Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.
A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.
I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.
We are not a nation, so much as a world; for unless we claim all the world for our sire, like Melchisedec, we are without father or mother.
My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.
My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.
Frog has no nerves. Frog is as old as a cockroach. Frog is my father's genitals. Frog is a malformed doorknob. Frog is a soft bag of green.
I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.
In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.
The Bush administration has apparently approved a plan to oust Saddam Hussein. I think that's President Bush's Father's Day gift to his Dad.
There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
I’m His girl. You don’t mess with God’s girl. I got a sign on my forehead that says: You better be nice to me, for my Father owns the world.
Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.
"My father," she admitted, "was of Italian extraction. Unfortunately, not an affliction that can be cured." She paused. "Though he did die."
I didn't do too much. I came here (to The Magic Castle) and learned about magic. I read a book, but not his father's book. Sorry about that.