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You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the...
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My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—"
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IRENE ROSENFELD I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brot...
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When my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1991, I asked him if he had any regrets, and he...
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FAIRUZA BALK It was difficult for my mother to travel with my father. He was 92 and he'd been sick. He couldn't d...
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TONY SHALHOUB Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. The nice...
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JAMES GANDOLFINI My father was a very warm, gregarious, sociable person who had many interests. He lived his life ver...
DIANA QUICK When my father passed away, he had his organs donated. In that painful moment, I was deeply comforte...
JOHN PEREZ And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and h...
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When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of ...
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God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred...
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My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat...
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My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the centu...
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DYLAN WALSH My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North C...
KARY MULLIS I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
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So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar...
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EARVIN MAGIC JOHNSON My father would leave home for seven or eight months of the year trying to pursue his hockey career....
BERNICE CARNEGIE I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go t...
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To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could...
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The idea of going to the movies made Hugo remember something Father had once told him about going to...
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I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the h...
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My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gael...
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My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer - but it was because of what my...
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My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and cal...
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But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
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Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unus...
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He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa...
JUNE CARTER CASH
JOSEPH ABBOUD And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; becaus...
BIBLE My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother de...
JOHN LAUTNER My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There ...
LATA MANGESHKAR
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP
My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule... THURGOOD MARSHALL
When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house... ORIANA FALLACI
The Hadley Street Dream is a tribute to making a vision come to life. My father built a compound on ... SOLANGE KNOWLES
After they had skated around the pond several times, my father asked my mother to marry him. I expec... MARGARET ATWOOD
My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor si... CORY BOOKER
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ... PATTI SMITH When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless c...
HOWARD WARREN BUFFETT
My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived ... CARLOS SLIM
My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a ve... SAM SHEPARD With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure t...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE
You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the... GEORGE MACDONALD
My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that... BLAKE LIVELY My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS
When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an h... JO NESBO My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance compa...
SUSAN STRAIGHT
I had given myself a sort of early retirement when I left the scene in 1985. All of the people in my... J. D. SOUTHER
My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My ... NATASHA TRETHEWEY
The Bible A young man from a wealthy family was about to graduate from high school. It was the custo... JACK CANFIELD
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with... JILL LEPORE In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he foun...
BRUNO SCHULZ [That studio was built for her father shortly before his death from cancer in 1978.] It was a little...
FRANK MULLINS My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wond...
MAIRA KALMAN I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and lovin...
SAM SHEPPARD
My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—"She married a house?
SHERRILYN KENYON My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She ...
LAURENCE YEP
Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I mov... DAVID JOHANSEN
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea... WALTER MOSLEY My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jal...
XAVIER BECERRA My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still us...
CHUCK CLOSE
I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the neare... IRENE ROSENFELD I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brot...
ANTHONY BROWNE So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple f...
GEORGE J. MITCHELL My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural ...
PAUL NURSE
When my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1991, I asked him if he had any regrets, and he... MICHELLE PAVER When I was a teenager, my stern and meticulous father, whom I regarded as well-spirited of his disce...
JECON B. NADELA My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he w...
RACHEL JOYCE I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was buil...
LAURA ESQUIVEL As I was being born my father claims that he was playing his fiddle/violin to soothe my mother and w...
FAIRUZA BALK It was difficult for my mother to travel with my father. He was 92 and he'd been sick. He couldn't d...
JAMES MAXEY
Before I was born my father disowned me. You know those ones who get the females pregnant, and then ... DREXEL DEAL
My own participation in the campaign was delayed by the death of my son Calvin, which occurred on th... CALVIN COOLIDGE My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He...
LYNETTE FROMME
Most people marry their mother. I married my father. WAYNE GRETZKY
Johnny Cash had all of the same talents and problems as Elvis - a poor upbringing in the rural South... MOLLY HARPER And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father...
BIBLE
I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house. I remember like it was yesterday... MAGIC JOHNSON I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was ...
TONY SHALHOUB Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. The nice...
LETA GANDOLFINI Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make, ... The ...
JAMES GANDOLFINI My father was a very warm, gregarious, sociable person who had many interests. He lived his life ver...
DIANA QUICK When my father passed away, he had his organs donated. In that painful moment, I was deeply comforte...
JOHN PEREZ And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and h...
BIBLE
When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of ... BONNIE BEDELIA He had built his own future brick by brick around himself but there were no doors or windows, at lea...
DAN CHAON
God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred... GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... ROBERT WINSTON
My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat... SIDNEY POITIER
My father has acted in over 700 films. My mother acted in one film, 'Kismat with Mithun Chakrabo... SHRADDHA KAPOOR
My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the centu... BONNIE BEDELIA
My father emigrated from Lithuania to the United States at the age of 12. He received his higher edu... GERTRUDE B. ELION
My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rura... SUSUMU TONEGAWA My great-grandfather, Peter O'Hara, was born in Ireland, I believe, in County Clare. His father,...
KELLI O'HARA My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poet...
DYLAN WALSH My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North C...
KARY MULLIS I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL
So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar... TORI AMOS
My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Un... TONY VISCONTI
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a... OLIVIA HUSSEY
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in acad... PETE SEEGER
My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At lea... HAROLD PINTER
When I was very young, my father had an accident. He fell down a flight of stairs, fractured his sku... JANET YELLEN My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come h...
EARVIN MAGIC JOHNSON My father would leave home for seven or eight months of the year trying to pursue his hockey career....
BERNICE CARNEGIE I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go t...
ALAN J. HEEGER
To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could... ANGELINA JOLIE
When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos... BENIGNO AQUINO III In the past, he had never questioned the fact that he was a prince; like the fact that he was the ch...
NAHOKO UEHASHI Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, ...
WILLIAM PETERSEN
[Another student, Ken, the son of Korean immigrants, enrages his ambitious father when he decides to... FRANK MCCOURT Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name...
BIBLE
The idea of going to the movies made Hugo remember something Father had once told him about going to... BRIAN SELZNICK
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the h... DAVID MCCULLOUGH
Did he show himself?” Nash asked, and I glanced to my right to see him staring at my father, as fa... RACHEL VINCENT My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a column...
SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother...
BIBLE
My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gael... SEAMUS HEANEY Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had ...
SAFFRON ALDRIDGE
My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer - but it was because of what my... HENRY FORD
My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and cal... CHELSEA HANDLER Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Communit...
PETER FONDA
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24. RACHAEL LEIGH COOK
Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unus... ANTHONY HOROWITZ When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't ...
HENRIKH MKHITARYAN In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest...
PAUL MELLON
He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa... JUNE CARTER CASH
Turn your scars into stars. 
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yours... 
There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and... 
. . . the authors had developed indices that could be employed to measure the state of a civilizatio... 
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the r... 
Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. 
Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace. 
The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable. 
We can afford no liberties with liberty itself. 
Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of f... 
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. 
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road... 
There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ... 
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. 
Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. 
People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a pa... 
An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes. 
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is le... 