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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. Barbara Kingsolver
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
fighting fights-and-fighting retailers
The wholesalers and the retailers are fighting us very hard. Steve Gross
fighting people might
A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words. Brandon Lee
fighting delicate-life needs
And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that end," Vin said. "No reason to force it."All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch upon her - wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me for being what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself? Brandon Sanderson
fighting style stubborn
When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on. Boris Spassky
fighting thinking community
I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval. Archie Panjabi
fighting people pace
There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy... But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason... A love, inspired, it seems, by the gods, which it is impossible to fight, distort, destroy, or weaken. In fact, the attempts to destroy such loves only strengthen them. And to do nothing allows them to continue to grow at their natural pace, inexoribly, till this love becomes a wide and silent adoration. Ben Okri
fighting men battle
A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself. Ben Okri
fighting numbers mind
For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind. Ayn Rand
fighting pride men
Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth Ayn Rand
rocks labels band
Even though were not the most punk rock band, the way weve done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves. Brandon Thomas
rocks indie-rock chinese
The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't. Ben Gibbard
rocks comedian enthusiasm
When I was younger I always thought, 'If I were ever a comedian I'd make it like a rock concert.' I wanted to generate that type of enthusiasm and excitement. Carrot Top
rocks would-be pale
I would pale in comparison to rock and rollers with my haircut. I would be a lightweight. Bart Chilton
rocks band rock-n-roll
When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it. Craig Finn
rocks rock-and-roll people
I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people. Bobby Vinton
rocks rock-and-roll desire
If you're in the heyday of rock and roll and movies, and that's where I grew up. We didn't have to look for it. We didn't have to create angst. We didn't have to create desire. We didn't have to say, see we were screwed, my generation, because we wanted to be The Beatles or Elvis Presley. That ain't going to happen. So we always had this thing to reach for. Billy Bob Thornton
rocks progress president
It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events. Charles Portis
rocks band shirts
I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement. Bridget Hall