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fathers quite teens
I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar. Kazuo Ishiguro
fathers-day courage adversity
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man. Ben Okri
father rain garden
Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper. Barbara Kingsolver
father holiday mean
Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.
father views republic
In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
father fighting men
I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.' Ayelet Waldman
father adoption tracking
She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself. Brad Meltzer
father son connections
With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you. Brad Pitt
father years realizing
How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman? Jane Fonda
knowing skill toughest
Probably the toughest part is knowing that I have to play well. That's the one skill that I am still working on. Stacy Kim
knowing people als
Being in charge isn't always about telling people what to do. Sometimes, it's about knowing when to step out of the way of people who know what they're doing. - Tam al'Thor Brandon Sanderson
knowing crafts study
Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something. Babe Didrikson Zaharias
knowing special rooms
Walk into a room, knowing you are somebody, somebody special. Don't ever let them smash that or pull you down. Arthur Mitchell
knowing risk paint
My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation. Brian Johnson
knowing understanding littles
...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little. Jan Karon
knowing different judgment
Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment. Carl von Clausewitz
knowing understanding world
Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it. Bryant H. McGill
knowing people next
I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore! Celia Imrie
greek-philosopher
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. Socrates
greek degrees certain
We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics. Donald Kagan
greek becoming might
Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate. Anaxagoras
greek matter firsts
We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue. Simone Weil
greek wish tvs
I love Greek Mythology, wish there was a TV series, like being human or smallville, but with the series based around Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Holla Mayne! Rick Riordan
greek together steam
The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together.
greek language speak
Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love Rumi
greek envious divine
The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that you can say well yes, all right, if there is going to be god or gods then you have to admit that they're very at the very least capricious. They're certainly not consistent. They're certainly not all loving. Stephen Fry
greek language failing
The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly technical terms used to identify psychiatric illnesses and interventions are simply dyphemisms and euphemisms. Thomas Szasz