“Night by night I will lie down and sleep in the thought of God, and in the thought, too, that my waking may be in the bosom of the Father; and some time it will be, so I trust.” MayLyingNightFatherSleepMeditationDown AndWakingTrust MeBosoms Book:Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ... Source: Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...
“Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable - not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent - you learn, in a word, femininity.” MenYearsSelfBodyPainSufferingFatherLiteratureGrowsGrowing UpImagineMouthsAbuseBasesDown AndSilentTerrorLegsTraumaYour BodyHorribleImagine ThatPassiveFemininityAnother ManCoveringUnspeakableSuffering And Pain Author:Catharine MacKinnon
“I heard my first laughter on stage, when I was about 10 years old. It was gold pantomime and I remember I was playing Baron Fitznoodle, who was the father of the ugly sisters in "Cinderella." And I walked on and got a great big laugh and I thought that was fantastic, until I looked down and found that my flies were open. And so I always check my flies. I even check my flies on radio.” YearsFirstsBigsRememberFoundFatherLaughingHeardStageLaughterGoldDown AndRadioUglyChecksFantasticPantomime Author:Michael Caine
“I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.” StoriesAgeUsedFatherWatchesFourDown AndGrandfatherMy GrandfatherDaydreamingWatch Movie Author:Aneurin Barnard
“Other people had strived for freedom and promise and ratatatata but the Constitution [of USA] was the first time we codified it aspirationally and wrote it down and put it up on a wall and said, "this is us." If your father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, you don't have to be a cobbler.” PeopleIfsFirstsSaidFatherWallPromiseFirst TimeConstitutionDown AndUsaCobblers Author:Ben Dreyfuss
“I calculated the amount of time I spent with my father during my entire life... the total amount of time I had with him, if you add up the hours, was about two months. My father was a busy man... we had very few opportunities to really sit down and talk as father and son.” IfsMenTwoFatherOpportunityHoursSonMonthsAmountDown AndAddBusyTwo MonthsFather And SonBusy Man Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi