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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
two old-friends wish
So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle
two exciting show-business
That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life. Barbara Mandrell
two together legends
Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It's the stuff of legends. And now it's the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together. Barbara Mikulski
two half half-truth
Two half truths do not make a truth. Arthur Koestler
two issues empathy
There are two side to every issue. Ayn Rand
two america important
It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China. Bertrand Russell
two gentleman consideration
Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman. Benjamin Disraeli
two people different
People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people. Brian Bosworth
two white numbers
White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We don’t have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we’re ignorant. Jane Elliott
white wish ears
I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears. Brad Barkley
white laughing clubs
Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor. Juvenal
white giving people
I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death. Al Green
white people racism
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things. Janis Joplin
white people focus
It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression. bell hooks
white racism support
When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated.
white feminist ease
Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive
white feminist agendas
We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.
white tools shame
Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.