“Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.” WayDifferentKidsMotherFatherCommunicationDirectDifferent Ways Author:Richard Louv
“At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.” DifferentWantedSchoolFatherAuthority Author:John Leguizamo
“It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.” YearsWellsPersonsStillsDifferentFatherEasyHalfBoysFour Author:Alan Vega
“When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.” PeopleMadeIdeasDifferentStatesHappensFatherBeliefRealizingUnitedUnited StatesGeniusCompromiseMakeupSenateFoundingOur Founding FathersDifferent Ideas Author:Claire McCaskill
“Before I had a son, I used to look at my father's example: he left me, he left my mother. When I had a son, I got caught in the same situation that his mother don't want me to see him. I started looking at my father in a different light.” WantLooksDifferentLightUsedMotherFatherLeftSituationExampleSonCaughtWant MeHe Left Me Author:French Montana
“If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.” IfsDifferentFatherWifeLiving My LifeMatrimonyDifferent Religions Author:John F. Kennedy
“I was born in New York but as a baby moved to Venezuela and Argentina. I've also lived in Denmark, where my father's from. I've traveled a lot, and having that sort of background probably increased the chance that I was going to remain curious as an adult about people who are different.” PeopleDifferentFatherBornChanceNew YorkBabyAdultsMovedBackgroundsCuriousTraveledArgentinaVenezuelaDenmark Author:Viggo Mortensen
“My grandfather and my father disagreed about music, not least of all because my dad wanted to improvise. It wasn't just that he wanted to play different music; it was just that he came off the dots.” DifferentPlayWantedFatherDadMy DadGrandfatherMy GrandfatherDotsDifferent Music Author:Elvis Costello
“Father, I am from a different egg than your other children. Think of me as a duckling raised by hens. I am not a domestic bird destined to spend his life in a chicken coop. the water that scares you rejuvenates me. For unlike you I can swim, and swim I shall. The ocean is my homeland. If you are with me, come to the ocean. If not, stop interfering with me and go back to the chicken coop.” IfsThinkingChildrenI CanDifferentFatherWaterLike YouOceanBirdRaisedEggsChickensSwimScareInterfereDestinedHomelandThink Of MeHensDucklings Author:Elif Safak
“I hated the idea that I would be like my father. Which is one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to be a writer and wanted to be an actor instead. I wanted to go in a total different direction. But, of course, I ended up being a writer anyway.” WantIdeasDifferentReasonWould BeWantedCoursesActorsFatherDecidedHatedDifferent Directions Author:Loudon Wainwright III
“My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies.” MeanDifferentFatherLostCompanyHellNineKitchenDriversTruckTruck DriverSad Times Author:Frank Gehry
“Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture.” ThinkingFeelsMadeDifferentLyingValuesCultureEvilFatherChanceRacePerspectiveFruitDetailsGood And EvilSoleUglinessOur FatherLinkages Book:The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories Source: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories
“Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.” DifferentEnoughFeelingsFatherLeftGenerationsSonDadDaughterLeavingWoundsPsychicsHad EnoughDeprivationSon And Daughter Author:Warren Farrell
“My father is not around any more, so I cannot ask him to do my drawings for me. So, I had to find a different way. And I came up with the solution to use the printers then; I wasn't doing anything complicated. The nature of the printer is efficiency in itself and about working, being productive.” WayDifferentUseAsksFatherSolutionsComplicatedDrawingDifferent WaysProductiveEfficiencyPrinter Author:Wade Guyton
“A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, the kind that women use in villages to pull water from wells; the clavicle curved around his neck in high relief, like a dog's collar; cuts and nicks and scars, like little whip marks in his flesh, ran down his chest and waist, reaching down below his hip bones into his buttocks. The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.” MenWellsKindLittlesDifferentStoriesUseBodyLife IsFatherWaterWhitePoorRichCuttingWrittenDogMarkBonesFleshHipsRanNecksReliefReachingPensVillageChestsScarBlankRopePillowWhipsSpineCottonRich ManPoor ManCollarsPremiumButtocks Author:Aravind Adiga