“I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.” IfsCountryMightTodayFatherMilitaryBecomingPoliticianSixMy FamilyPrisonProfessorsGrandfatherDictatorshipMy Grandfather Author:George Papandreou
“The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.” FatherWinningStrongSportsMastersBecomingFameMarriedAspectThirdsBeing MarriedBecoming A Father Author:Mike Weir
“Pressure is always a part of a racing driver's life, but my father helped me a lot on my way to becoming a F1 driver.” WayFatherBecomingPressureMy WayDriversRacingRacing Driver Author:Nico
“The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like Himself; when we have been proved in our present capacity, and been faithful with all things He puts into our possession. We are created, we are born for the express purpose of growing up from the low estate of manhood, to become Gods like unto our Father in heaven. That is the truth about it, just as it is. The Lord has organized mankind for the express purpose of increasing in that intelligence and truth, which is with God, until he is capable of creating worlds on worlds, and becoming Gods, even the sons of God” WorldHas BeensPurposeFatherHeavenBornLordGrowing UpGrowingMankindSonBecomingCreatingCapableLowsCapacityAll ThingsPossessionFaithfulOrganizedEstatesManhoodOur FatherFather In HeavenBecoming GodCreating Worlds Book:The Essential Brigham Young Source: The Essential Brigham Young
“As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the Paulist Fathers for two years after high school in full anticipation of becoming a priest.” YearsTwoMatterFactsSchoolFatherStudyBecomingHigh SchoolDecidedTwo YearsPriestsAnticipationMatter Of FactSeminaryAfter High School Author:Bob Gunton
“The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; and whether, having left behind the priests and the scribes and the doctors and the fathers, we are about our Father's business, and becoming wise to God.” ChildrenFeelingsWisdomLawFatherLeftUnderstandingBehindsWiseMysteryDivineBecomingDoctorsSacredTemplesPriestsLeft BehindOur FatherMystery Of LifeScribesBecoming Wise Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton
“My mother was the one who totally got behind me as far as, do things and ask questions later. My father would say, "I don't care how dirty you are up there, just be funny." Because they knew me offstage. They knew I was a good guy. They knew my whole plan of becoming the most exciting comedian, visually, ever. A real rock-and-roll stand-up comic.” RealWholeCareMotherGuyAsksFatherBehindsPlansRocksBecomingExcitingDon't CareComicComedianI Don't CareDirtyRock And RollGood Guy Author:Andrew Dice Clay
“As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.” IfsWaySaidRealRememberFatherLiteratureSleepBecomingAwakeGoing To SleepBecoming More Author:Jerzy Kosinski
“I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.” FatherBecomingIllFats Author:Rafe Spall
“I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.” ThinkingKindFatherParentSonBecomingFather SonFather Son Relationship Author:Francois Arnaud
“When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and sees himself in the face of the boy. He imagines what the boy sees when he looks at him and finds himself becoming his own father. Inexplicably, he is moved by this. It is not just the sight of the boy that moves him, not even the thought of standing inside his father, but what he sees in the boy of his own vanished past. It is a nostalgia for his own life that he feels, perhaps, a memory of his own boyhood as a son to his father.” FeelsWritingLooksPastFacesMovingDiesFatherMemoriesBoysImagineSonBecomingStandingSightMovedNostalgiaBoyhood Book:The Invention of Solitude Source: The Invention of Solitude
“I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.” WayChildrenBookBigsFatherLiteratureCrimeReaderBecomingLoversAnnoyingLibrarianGreat BookNancyBook LoverNancy Drew Author:Asa Larsson
“Becoming Father the Nurturer rather than just Father the Provider enables a man to fully feel and express his humanity and his masculinity. Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.” MenFeelsHumanityFatherCan DoBecomingMasculinityMasculineProvidersFathering Author:Frank Pittman
“The U.S. is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his or her father. Today an American child can reasonably expect not to. Fatherlessness is now approaching a rough parity with fatherhood as a defining feature of American childhood.” ChildrenTodayFatherGrowsGrowing UpGenerationsChildhoodBecomingFeaturesRoughFatherhoodDefiningParityFatherlessFatherlessness Author:David Blankenhorn
“This is not to say that becoming a father automatically makes you a good father. Fatherhood, like marriage, is a constant struggle against your limitations and self-interests. But the urge to be a perfect father is there, because your child is a perfect gift.” ChildrenSelfFatherInterestPerfectMarriageStruggleBecomingOur ChildrenConstantLimitationYour ChildrenUrgesFatherhoodSelf InterestGood FatherConstant StruggleBecoming A FatherPerfect Father Author:Kent Nerburn