Quotes of: Father-figure Keyword

My father was an agnostic.

Jerry Falwell

When a father praises his son, he flatters himself.

American

Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not. Proverbs 27.10

Biblical

Her father's fortune will make the ugliest girl attractive.

Spanish

In the absence of honest men, they made my father mayor.

Spanish

There is a poverty of the average human’s life, who is unnoticed by the world. It is the poverty of the commonplace. There is nothing heroic about it; it is the poverty of the common lot, devoid of ecstasy. Jesus was poor in this way. He was no mod...

Poverty of Spirit

What scared Stanley the most about dying wasn't his actual death. He figured he could handle the pain. It wouldn't be much worse than what he felt now. In fact, maybe at the moment of his death he would be too weak to feel pain. Death would be a reli...

Holes

It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to play — the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the grip of that feeling it isn't life we pursue, but the point and...

Fiction and the Figures of Life

And I’m sorry,” Big Earrings said, “But how is some course going to teach them how marriage works? I’ve been married three times, and I haven’t figured it out yet.” She snorted. “I figured out how to call a lawyer, though.

A Match Made in High School

Crucially we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness, with the Earth & every other living thing; we have just been insanely trying to figure out how to live with each other, billions of each other, only we're not living with each other our c...

Thandie Newton

I don't want to be a historical action figure or treated like I'm dead. Like one of those people where they go, 'Oh, isn't she dead?' And then I walk up, and they're like, 'Whoa.' I can't really complain... because I've made myself into a historical ...

Kathleen Hanna

I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics a...

Matt Mullenweg

I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in...

Hank Azaria

Barton Keyes: This Dietrichson business. It's murder. And murders don't come any neater. As fancy a piece of homicide as anyone ever ran into. Smart, tricky, almost perfect. But... I think papa has it all figured out. Figured out and wrapped up in ti...

Double Indemnity

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Caught between life and death, I clung to life.

The Fall: A Father's Memoir in 424 Steps

Mutlu olabilmek için her gün bir miktar edebiyatla ilgilenmem gerekiyor.

My Father's Suitcase: The Nobel Lecture

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Homer

My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.

Tracy Morgan

The power of procreation is spiritually significant. Misuse of this power subverts the purposes of the Father's plan and of our mortal existence. Our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son are creators and have entrusted each of us with a portion of The...

David A. Bednar

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

Ezra Taft Benson