Quotes of: Founding-fathers Keyword

I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.

A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing

Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.

A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing

Hmm. Relationships between fathers and sons can be notoriously difficult, especially for two men who are as different as you and your father are." "Yes, and he's also the king--that makes our relationship impossible.

Gods and Kings

I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already in the team, and my father had come to watch us. We went home, and my father died in front of me. Horribly, in about half an hour. He ...

Anthony Browne

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hard...

Carol Leifer

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.

Walter Mosley

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

When God plans to bless a man, he takes this poor time-cursed creature into His hand and says., My son, I breath into you eternity and immortality.

The Attributes of God: Deeper into the Father's Heart

We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.

The Attributes of God: A Journey Into the Father's Heart

Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react strongly. Otherwise, they just take in the experience and move on to the next one.

Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.

I Am America

First off, let’s clear this up—fries are not a side dish and you can’t count those as a vegetable. Sorry.

The Single Dad Detour: Directions for Fathering After Divorce

In expression of Fatherhood I evolve to become - all I was destined, to be.

The Soulful Pathway to Fatherhood: Soulfully Empowering Your Life's Journey & Purpose as a Father Through Positive Inspiration

Invest in what's real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn't have to be complicated. It will be what it will be.

My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness

What makes us threaten the things we want most?

My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales

I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others.

Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)

Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys,” but as our Father.

Not Knowing Where

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]

Phantastes

Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice. It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called the Universal Language.

The Price We Must Pay for Our Father's Sins

Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.

The Price We Must Pay for Our Father's Sins