![[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.](/assets/img/quote-photos/we-pity-our-fathers-for-dying-before-steam-and-galvanism-sulphuric-ether-and-o.jpg)
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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
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I used to watch my father play with his friends in Mexico. I loved watching him play.
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
ocean people stories
This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we're born into stories. I say we're also born from stories.
ocean winning careers
Careers go in cycles. I've plateau-ed. I've been at the bottom of the ocean... You win some, you lose some... Brendan Fraser
ocean piano goal
I've had a lot of different responses to my films. I got a lot of support from 'The Piano,' the obvious one, but it feels like an ocean, with a lot going on - the goal is to keep alive. Jane Campion
ocean sea islands
In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire. James Theodore Bent
ocean achievement storm
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm. Charles Kettering
ocean giants possibility
An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities. Jami Attenberg
ocean two eyeglasses
When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science. Anton Chekhov
ocean people want
Ocean's 13 is all about cool people having a good time, and who doesn't want to see that? Well you, apparantly, 'cause you're watching me. Craig Ferguson
ocean taken air
It's very important that people realize: the air is being taken away, the oceans are being taken away, the room is being taken away, but we're so worried about gas prices that we don't even see this stuff. Bootsy Collins
science views scientific-method
Induction for deduction, with a view to construction. Auguste Comte
science reality technology
Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. Arthur Koestler
science mathematical-logic ideas
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. Bertrand Russell
science giving development
Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.
science wants
Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
science supposing-that forever
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new. Calvin Coolidge
science ideas errors
People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.
science firsts honest
Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
science would-be mould
If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty. Charles Darwin