I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
The Holy Ghost is the minister and messenger of the Father and the Son, and He testifies of both Their glorious, global reality and Their connection to us personally.
They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized syphilitic.
Fathers are like your BackBone,They will stand by you 4ever N ever. While Mothers are your Heart...They live with your Happiness N die with Your Sorrow..
What the world really needs is courageous parenting from mothers and fathers who are not afraid to speak up and take a stand.
We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them.
Prayer is not itself powerful; it is not magic. But its power is unlimited in that the child of God calls on a Father of unlimited goodness and ability.
The condemned man’s voice is laced with dark promise as he continues. “Remember Father, evil is simply ‘live’ spelt backwards." Hellbound
When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.
I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.
It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff - a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.
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.
I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.
I am a father, I am very aware of the things that I'm putting out in the world knowing that one day my children will watch the work that I've done. I want to be able to stand by it.
I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.
I was pulled out of Omaha when I was younger because my father started to work, when he was done serving as county commissioner, at Archer Daniels Midland.
It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea Prison for bad debt, but it was obviously a huge part of him.
Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.
