“I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.” WorldWayHappensFatherClassStruggleSeeingRageImmigrantsTiedWorking ClassTied Up Author:Dennis Lehane
“We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.” KnowsLittlesRealHappensYoungMotherFatherBlackBornBoysIssuesHeardSeriousDadYoung WomenSerious IssuesBlack Boy Author:Karrine Steffans
“I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.” YearsTwoHardHappensSchoolMotherNextFatherBrotherLessonsMetsMarriedHigh SchoolDiedGirlfriendMy BrotherTwo YearsLife LessonPregnantNext YearMy GirlfriendSophomoreMother DiedHard LessonsSophomore Year Book:I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is Source: I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is
“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
“I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsHappensKidsMotherFatherParentUnderstandingRightsSeparationWhatever Happens Author:Dwyane Wade
“I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.” PeopleThinkingWantGivingReasonHappensFatherWaterEconomyPicksRainGood ThingsThings HappenCropsRain WaterGood Rain Author:Benazir Bhutto
“The purpose of a fishing trip is not to catch fish. Bringing home meat is important, but it is more symbolic than necessary, as the new morality of catch-and-release has shown. What is important is what happens between people on fishing trips, especially between uncles and nephews, fathers and sons, old men in general and young boys in particular, it is one of the few times men are together without women.” PeopleMenImportantHomeHappensTogetherYoungPurposeFatherBoysSeaParticularSonMoralityRiversFishesBoatReleaseMeatLakesFishingOld ManUnclesSymbolicFather And SonNephew Author:Paul G. Quinnett
“Someone tells us that God loves us as a father loves his children. We are reassured. But then something awful happens. Some qualification is made.... We are reassured again. But then perhaps we ask: what is this assurance of God's (appropriately qualified) love worth, what is this apparent guarantee really a guarantee against? Just what would have to happen not merely (morally and wrongly) to tempt but also (logically and rightly) to entitle us to say "God does not love us" or even "God does not exist"?” ChildrenDoeMadeHappensAsksFatherAtheismPositive AtheismAwfulGod LoveGuaranteesAssuranceQualifiedQualificationsGod Loves Us Author:Antony Flew
“I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.” WellsHappensRunningMotherFatherDemocracyMilitaryTrainTroopsSurrogates Author:Alfred M. Gray
“Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.” MayHappensCareTodayFatherTomorrowMiserableWho CaresEverlastingCare For You Author:Saint Francis de Sales
“I know how lucky I am. I never take it for granted. In this country [USA], anything can happen - anybody can be what they want to be. All I ever wanted was to be a good husband and father, a good chef, and to have my own restaurant. And the celebrity was never expected. Wouldn't have even dared dream of it. And here I am. So anyone's dreams can come true. And I'm very, very grateful for everything that's come my way. I thank everyone who enjoys what I do.” KnowsWayWantCountryDreamHappensWantedFatherEnjoyMy OwnKnow HowLuckyHusbandGratefulExpectedGrantedMy WayUsaRestaurantsChefHere I AmAnything Can HappenGood HusbandDreams Can Come TrueHusband And Father Author:Guy Fieri
“I understand that actors lose their looks, they change over time, but people don't lose their talent. I think that, as people get older and the people who make the decisions get older, they don't like hiring people much older than them because it reminds them of their fathers, and they don't like telling people older than them what to do. It makes them uncomfortable. I think that happens a lot.” PeopleThinkingLooksHappensActorsFatherLosesDecisionTalentUncomfortableHiringChanges Over Time Author:Kurt Fuller
“Things happen in my physical body, in my relationships. I've buried three fathers and a mother. I've had a doctor tell me I've got a tumor in my brain. And when you face those situations, they transform you, they change you, and when you're able to break through them to a new level, they allow you to have gifts to give other people.” PeopleGivingBodyHappensAbleFacesMotherThreeFatherLevelsBrainSituationBreakDoctorsThings HappenBuriedBreak ThroughPhysical BodyTumors Author:Tony Robbins
“The fact that the stars predict high or low rank for the father of the person whose horoscope is taken, teaches that they do not always make things happen but sometimes only indicate things. For how could things which preceded the birth depend upon the birth?” PersonsSometimesFactsHappensFatherStarsTeachTakenDependsBirthLowsThings HappenMake Things HappenHoroscopes Author:Sallust
“My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.” FeelsYearsBelieveHappensFatherHalfKnowingSpecialDadDaughterYears AgoDiedFeel BetterFatherhoodFathers DaySomething SpecialFather DiedMy Father DiedMake Me Feel BetterNew Father Author:Natasha Josefowitz
“Imagine if you would, what would happen to your sorrows and fears if God Himself, the maker of heaven and earth, the Father of our Lord, the sovereign One, were to come to you, wrap you in His almighty arms and say to you, 'I love you with a perfect love, exactly as I love My Son. I will never stop loving you, no matter what. I am completely, utterly for you. I promise, on My own life, that I will do you good every day of your life. And because I control all things, that means My good is all you will ever experience from this time forward.'” IfsMeanMatterHappensEarthFatherHeavenMy OwnPerfectLordImagineLove YouSonArmsSorrowPromiseAll ThingsNo Matter WhatMy SonMakersAlmightySovereignWrapsOur LordI PromiseMy Own LifeLoving YouHeaven And EarthPerfect LoveStop Loving YouNever Stop LovingLove My SonI Love My SonNever Stop Loving You Author:R. C. Sproul, Jr.
“My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy, I gypsied around with my siblings and my parents to, like, eight different towns, went to eight different schools. All those things were extremely formative, and I think that's what happens.” ThinkingMenDifferentHappensSchoolYoungFatherParentBoysGrewGrew UpTheaterTownsEightYoung ManSiblingMy SiblingsTheater Family Author:John Lithgow