Quotes of: Founding-fathers Keyword

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

He promised us that everything would be OK. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be OK. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

...the second time you see something is really the time. You need to know how it ends before you can appreciate how beautifully it's put together from the beginning.

The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

When Tito was born, I was writing my fifth novel. That was how I saw my future: living in Venice and jumping from novel to novel. Tito's birth changed all that.

The Fall: A Father's Memoir in 424 Steps

I had so much respect for the fact that Father Andrew saw his own sins in my actions. I wished all adults were like Father Andrew.

Bad Habits: Confessions of a Recovering Catholic

I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, "Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God

Biography of William Carey - the Father of Modern Christian Missions

I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainly been affected by the experience of having kids... trying to be a father, at least. It's an amazing process. It's like songwriting: it's a complete mystery to me. I ...

Loudon Wainwright III

It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts,' I had to see the whole story from his point of view. All of a sudden I understood more of what my own father must be going through - the fear, the frustration, the anger... the ...

Lucy Alibar

We wonder why we don't have faith; the answer is, faith is confidence in the character of God and if we don't know what kind of God God is, we can't have faith.

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

Love casts out fear, for when we know we are loved, we are not afraid. Whoever has God's perfect love, fear is gone out of the universe for him.

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

Eschatology is the dustbin into which we sweep everything we don't want. To believe. We believe that the Lord will manifest Himself to men, but He'll do it tomorrow, or the day after, or the next millennium.

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

When an actor reaches down into his emotional well and pulls up a deeply personal response, the audience can sense something special is going on. They may not know exactly what they're seeing, but they recognize it as authentic.

Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

You will never have confidence in your prayers if you fail to be prudent with your words.

Speaking The Father's Blessing: 52 Blessings and 365 Promises To Speak Over Your Children

The promises you speak over your children can take on the weight of destiny.

Speaking The Father's Blessing: 52 Blessings and 365 Promises To Speak Over Your Children

Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence

The Shack

Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.

My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires

My Sister's Keeper

It has been suggested that the color of an aura can reveal characteristics about the generating source.

Messages from the Afterlife: A Bereaved Father's Journey in the World of Spirit Visitations, Psychic-Mediums, and Synchronicity

As I child, I came to this idea with a horrified fascination. Once upon a time, I wasn’t here. Before that, my parents weren’t here. And before that…

A Lie About My Father: A Memoir