All the girls feared their Father less than they did their Mother, because she sometimes remembered things and he did not. Lord Brightlingsea was swept through life on a steady amnesiac flow.
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He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain;
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DIANE MORGAN My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ... PATTI SMITH I stared at him. Did he really just say that? Did he remember? The way he looked back at me, one eye... JENNY HAN All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends... CORRIE TEN BOOM (Life) it was a little bit nearer than God, but no less powerful and terrible. Yes, it was something... ARTHUR HOLITSCHER All those little things are going to help you win ball games. The girls did a great job of going to ... BRAD POPPE Although my mother was her own person during their marriage, she loved and respected our father. The... BEATRICE E. MORRISON Their fundamental difference was their judgment on human nature. Jefferson believed that people were... HAL BIDLACK Because the man who stood there before us was not our father. He was somebody else, a stranger who h... JULIE OTSUKA Craig was steady throughout the game. And he did a heck of a job on the boards. DAVE PETTIT Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to yo... JULIAN BARNES Once upon a time, they say, there was a girl...there was a boy...there was a person who was in troub... TERRI WINDLING The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father ... BIBLE She saw how he was staring at it, the bright red hue beneath her bonnet. She could not bear to see t... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE One South Carolinian who grew up early in the twentieth century “did not learn that the South had ... PAUL D. ESCOTT Some parents really have trouble having their kids know their business. The parents of Baby Boomers,... DENNIS MEANS She had given him all she had - but what was it compared to the other gifts life held for him? She u... EDITH WHARTON Many a parent, sad to say, has used their child as an opportunity for them, the parent, to do, throu... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to yo... JULIAN BARNES My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP It's good. Eagle's playing well, though. I was surprised with how they come on their block. They did... BRIAN DOYON And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief. BIBLE He was a giver. He took all of the good things our mother and father taught. He was the best son a m... BILL HARMON I think they had more kids show up than we did. They wanted it more than we did. They weren't missin... DARAH HUFFMAN That feels great. It was an effort today from the whole team and we were really working together, ma... ANETTE NORBERG We made more mistakes today than they did, and that's why they won. To their credit, they did a bett... HARRY PETERSON Abraham had eight sons--not one. All eight sons bring something to the table. Abraham loved all of h... MICHAEL BEN ZEHABE The girls did well for their fist race. For a lot of them, it was their absolute first race. But the... DAVE CURTIS My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was g... MICHAEL HANEKE He did things like other big men who did things that helped their countries. FOREST WHITAKER Why this girl? Why had this girl crawled right under his skin and made an uncomfortable home there? ... ROS BAXTER She was just steady all through the game. PERRY DAVIS I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. A... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h... RENEE AHDIEH We didn't control the paint. Everything they did was because of their dribble penetration and their ... LARRY JUST He did not want the life his father had lived. He changed diapers, he drove a minivan. JEFFREY LICHTMAN I just thank the Lord because death did not come, ... The living things were spared. RALPH MOORE Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not: / For He... BIBLE A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husband... WASHINGTON IRVING No one ever had a better father than I did. Father was a disciplinarian, and Mother was a very lovin... JAMES E. FAUST Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f... FRANCIS BACON Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f... FRANCIS BACON SR. We had so much momentum going in. There were tough girls in the relay, but our girls did their part.... KARA LYNN JOYCE This one was a tough one to take. We did not shoot the ball well, but still ended up shooting better... ORLANDO EARLY What a performance. She did all the things she was supposed to do. JEFF JUDKINS Their first two rounds both wrestlers did a great job. They kept on working through the whole match.... DAVE SURITA The kids have grown up seeing us play together. I think that children naturally want to be with thei... DEBORAH CHARNESS I didn't feel the pressure of being No. 1 in the pre-season, but the girls did and that's when we we... FELICIA LOFTON The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes. CHARLOTTE CURTIS Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards... ROBERT ORBEN We knew their team was better than their record, yet I think perhaps as a team we did not give them ... GEORGE GWOZDECKY They all did better than I expected. Everybody dropped their times - the whole team. JANET BRIGHT So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actua... HARVEY FIERSTEIN We did a Girl Scout troop five years ago, and it was so fulfilling working with the kids. Even the o... GWEN FERGUSON She was a fantastic individual. She put more hours, I think, sometimes into this park than she did a... DONNA SMITH Males and females are unique and different, because their brains are different. There's not a li... JAMES DOBSON My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my f... GREG ILES My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father ... MARGARET CAVENDISH It's a good quarter and they upped their guidance but the stock will trade down because at first blu... ED SNYDER The girls did a good job of sticking with it. They did a good job of battling to keep their lead in ... SHANNA OLSON Sometimes legends find themselves remembered more for what they have not done than for their accompl... DON YAEGER Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety. 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JEFFREY EUGENIDES He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting t... JULIUS LESTER What did it matter anyway that she was so much lovelier than the other girls when Henry was so blind... ANNA GODBERSEN When my father, Ronald Reagan, was running for president in 1980, my mother, Nancy, traveled with hi... PATTI DAVIS What Richard and Mildred Loving did was, by their nature, not by any calculus, they separated themse... JEFF NICHOLS The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes. CHARLOTTE CURTIS Chess lied to herself every day; it was just something she did, like taking her pills or making sure... STACIA KANE Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymor... MARC FORSTER I don't think it's any reflection on that hospital. They did all the right things. They ultimately g... 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