“I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man.” MenShouldWellsHeartChildrenHandsLightSchoolMotherDesireOrderFatherGrowsParentInterestGrowing UpTeacherAliveWeakInstructionFavourKindlesDecrepitPower Of NatureStammering Author:Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
“Father, thanks for reaching out and lovingly,saying that you've always been proud of me,I needed to feel that so desperately,you're always alive inside of me.” FeelsFatherAliveProudNeededThanksReachingReach OutProud Of Me Author:Mariah Carey
“If my father was alive today, he would have fought for Kurdish rights” IfsTodayFatherAliveRightsLive For TodayKurdish Author:Aleida Guevara
“[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.” WritingFirstsChildrenAgeMotherFatherAlivePoetEightMother And FatherPissed OffOdesDead Mother Author:Judith Viorst
“Widowhood provided Mama with a higher form of being. In refusing to recover from my father's death she had discovered that her life was endowed with a seriousness her years in the kitchen had denied her. She remained devoted to this seriousness for thirty years. She never tired of it, never grew bored or restless in its company, found new ways to keep alive the interest it deserved and had so undeniably earned.” WayYearsFormFoundFatherInterestCompanyAliveGrewHigherTiredBoredThirtyKitchenDeniedDevotedNew WaysRestlessSeriousnessMamaThirty YearsWidowhood Author:Vivian Gornick
“I've had my breath taken away when a fan told me since watching my speech she has stopped herself being beaten up by her father. I've been stunned by the amount of men in my life that have contacted me since my speech to tell me to keep going, and that they want to make sure that their daughters will still be alive to see a world where women have power and equality, economically and politically.” MenWorldWantStillsFatherTakenAliveFansAmountSpeechDaughterBreathsKeep GoingBeatenStunned Author:Emma Watson
“The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.” TryingFatherProcessAliveBest ThingsSomething NewRehearsingTrying SomethingTrying Something NewFiguring Things Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.” MenTryingBodyAgeFatherOur LivesAliveCarCitizensMoonHusbandTwentiesCaringShootingCrashAdolescenceBreezeBasketsCruiseGood CitizenGreat FatherGood HusbandCar CrashDashingWinsome Author:Garrison Keillor
“Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and show us how tobe men. He can escape us, but we can never escape him. Present or absent, dead or alive, real or imagined, our father is the main man in our masculinity.” MenWorldRealShowsFatherBoysAliveFunctionPrimeMasculinityAbsentOur Father Author:Frank Pittman
“J.P. Morgan, then past 70, was asked by the son of an eminent father why he [Morgan] didn't retire. When did your father retire? asked Mr. Morgan, without looking up from his desk. In 1902. When did he die? Oh, at the end of 1904. Huh! snapped Mr. Morgan, If he had kept on working he would have been alive still. Work is God's best medicine. It is God's medicine for man.” IfsMenHas BeensStillsEndsPastDiesFatherWorkAliveSonMedicineRetiringDesks Author:B. C. Forbes