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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
childhood transition unnoticed
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
childhood approval adults
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. C. S. Lewis
childhood disease literature
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. Jane Yolen
childhood fundamentals conditions
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness. Jane Smiley
childhood aging
The old are in a second childhood. Aristophanes
childhood raw-materials proust
Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence. Bruce Chatwin
childhood fan growing philly promised represents rotation
Duce was a Steelers fan growing up, so this represents the fulfillment of a childhood dream, ... At the end we did go back to Philly as he promised he would, but his re-involvement in their backfield rotation was a disincentive to re-signing there. Leigh Steinberg
childhood world poverty
We`re not going to let the United States continue to have one of the highest rates of childhood poverty in the industrialized world in - at a time when we`re seeing a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires. Bernie Sanders
childhood salary income
Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world.
parents running talked water
I've talked to our trainers and managers. If we can't get (the running backs) in the game, we'll let them run the water out during timeouts. That way I can tell their parents they got on the field. Chuck Amato
parents watched
It was the only show I watched with my parents as a kid, Andrew Solt
parents wonderful work
They all have wonderful personalities and a wonderful work ethic. Their parents are hard-working people.
parents supposed
They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to Margaret Atwood
parent supportive ifs
Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they're supportive parents. Anthony Rapp
parent balance example
My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives. Ben Marcus
parent illusion young
When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend your parents' limitations. Brian Aldiss
parent behind-the-scenes unnoticed
My parents do a lot of things behind the scenes that go unnoticed. Cam Newton
parent born belgians
My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually. Celine Buckens