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“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.”

Ifs Way Said Real Remember Father Literature Sleep Becoming Awake Going To Sleep Becoming More

Author:Jerzy Kosinski

“He's the Italian version of my father. I don't know if he's Italian or not.”

Ifs Knows Father Basketball Versions Italian

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“I always revered people that I thought had an idea and proceeded through with it. I guess I've been that way since the day I called my father and told him I was going to study acting and maybe try to see if I could do well with that, and he told me: "Don't do that. You don't want to do that, that's just dream stuff. Get a legitimate job and move forward."”

People Ifs Way Want Trying Wells Ideas Dream Jobs Moving Father Stuff Acting Study Moving Forward If I Could

Author:Clint Eastwood

“My father is a marvelous mentor, and if you're going to have a mentor, the ones that work best let you make your own mistakes. You're ready to do your own thing and just at that moment of being unbridled, if somebody's trying to manage you too tightly, it's going to be tough - particularly if that person's got the same last name.”

Ifs Trying Persons Moments Lasts Father Names Mistake Ready Tough Manage That Moment Mentor Marvelous

Author:Brian Roberts

“If my father was alive today, he would have fought for Kurdish rights”

Ifs Today Father Alive Rights Live For Today Kurdish

Author:Aleida Guevara

“We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers, their mothers, and their brothers, to satisfy the brutal lusts of savage men. If there be a god, I pray him to write in his book, opposite my name, that I denied this lie for him.”

Ifs Men Writing Book Lying Mother Father Names Brother Praying Opposites Lust Denied Brutal Savages I Pray Maidens If There Is A God

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Bush is smart. I don't think that Bush will ever be impeached, 'cause unlike Clinton, Reagan, or even his father, George W. is immune from scandal. Because, if George W. testifies that he had no idea what was going on, wouldn't you believe him?”

Ifs Thinking Believe Ideas Father Causes Smart Clinton No Idea Scandal Immune

Author:Jay Leno

“As a newborn baby breathes and cries, so the signs of life in a newborn Christian are faith and repentance, inhaling the love of God and exhaling an initial cry of distress. And at that point what God provides, exactly as for a newborn infant, is the comfort, protection, and nurturing promise of a mother. "If God is our father, the church is our mother." The words are those of the Swiss Reformer John Calvin ... it is as impossible, unnecessary, and undesirable to be a Christian all by yourself as it is to be a newborn baby all by yourself.”

“For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.”

Ifs Thinking Men Made Bigs Father Responsibility Boys Produce Dad My Dad Productive Good Man Close Relationship Big Responsibility

Author:Rafe Spall

“But you are not under a system similar to that by which the Jews were obliged to pay tithes to the priests. If there were any such rule laid down in the Gospel, it would destroy the beauty of spontaneous giving and take away all the bloom from the fruit of your liberality! There is no law to tell me what I should give my father on his birthday. There is no rule laid down in any law book to decide what present a husband should give to his wife, nor what token of affection we should bestow upon others whom we love. No, the gift must be a free one, or it has lost all its sweetness.”

Ifs Giving Should Book Law Father Lost Pay Wife Husband Fruit Affection Jew Priests Spontaneous Sweetness Obliged Tokens Tithe Liberality Law Books

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.”

Ifs Sometimes Facts Law Mother Father Son Appearance Sentimental Destined In-laws Courtship Sulky Son-in-law

Book:The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century

Source: The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century

“Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.”

Ifs Way Children Seems Father Wise Adults Affair Foolish Privacy Bent Doings Right To Privacy

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.”

Ifs Father Shapes Devil Busy Our Father Hateful

Book:Among my Books, etc

Source: Among my Books, etc

“If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger, And let not women's weapons, water drops, Stain my man's cheeks.”

Ifs Men Heart Father Water Fool Bears Weapons Daughter Anger Noble Be You Cheeks Stains Touch Me Lear Drop Of Water Fool Me

Book:King Lear

Source: King Lear

“This glorious union shall not perish! Precious legacy of our fathers, it shall go down honored and cherished to our children. Generations unborn shall enjoy its privileges as we have done; and if we leave them poor in all besides, we will transmit to them the boundless wealth of its blessings!”

Ifs Children Done Father Enjoy Wealth Poor Generations Blessing Our Children Unions Privilege Legacy Glorious Honored Our Father Boundless Unborn Transmit

Author:Edward Everett

“If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.”

Ifs Men Dies Father Cry Tears He Man Proof Turnips

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Precision marching is less important for the bridal party than maintaining the proper facial expresssions: The bridegroom must look awed; the bridesmaids, happy and excited; the father of the bride, proud; and the bride, demure. If the bridegroom feels doubtful, the bridesmaids, sulky, the father, worried, and the bride, blasé, nobody wants to know.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Looks Important Father Party Proud Excited Worried Maintaining Brides Precision Doubtful Facial Bridal Bridegroom Bridesmaids Sulky Demure Father Of The Bride

Book:Miss Manners on Weddings

Source: Miss Manners on Weddings

“A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.”

Ifs Eye Father White Forget Pay Marriage Vision Arms Husband Resources Dating Lovely Clever Carrie Compliment Sail Mistress Surveys Manly Aisle Surrogates New Father

Author:Germaine Greer

“God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do.”

Ifs Want Giving Kind Enough Father Wish Creatures Delightful Employed Want U

Book:The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation

Source: The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation

“If we can genuinely honor our mother and father we are not only at peace with ourselves but we can then give birth to our future.”

Ifs Giving Mother Father Birth Honor Our Future Mother And Father

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.”

Ifs Kind Long Real Guy Father Speak Taught Healthy Add Real Life Insightful Pretending Healthy Living That Guy Proceeding Long Hair Stoners

Author:Kevin Smith

“The idea that the Lord our God is not a personage of tabernacle is entirely a mistaken notion. He was once a man. Brother Kimball quoted a saying of Joseph the Prophet, that he would not worship a God who had not a Father; and I do not know that he would if be had not a mother; the one would be as absurd as the other. If he had a Father, he was made in his likeness. And if he is our Father we are made after his image and likeness.”

Ifs Knows Men Made Ideas Would Be Mother Father Lord Brother Worship Notion Absurd Prophet Mistaken Our Father

Book:The Essential Brigham Young

Source: The Essential Brigham Young

“I'm sure if you see things you wrote when you were 19, you cringe. I saw stuff like angry poetry that I wrote when I was mad at my father, or photos I took where I smeared period blood on myself. It's embarrassing.”

Ifs Father Stuff Saws Blood Periods Angry Mad Embarrassing Cringe

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“My mother and my father had very, very strong Scots accents. We were Australian, and in those days when I was young, I spoke with a much more of an Australian accent than I have now. However I knew that if I went to England to become an actor, which I was determined to, I knew that I had to get rid of the Australian accent. We were colonials, we were Down Under somewhere, we were those little people Over There. But I was determined to become an Englishman. So I did.”

People Ifs Littles Young Mother Actors Father Strong England Determined Spokes Very Strong Accents Australian Englishmen Scots

Author:George Ogilvie

“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.”

People Ifs Firsts Said Father Wall Promise First Time Constitution Down And Usa Cobblers

Author:Ben Dreyfuss

“One of the things I've always said is that if you're given the ability to coach kids, then you're really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort.”

Ifs Said Kids Father Given Parent Ability Coaches

Author:Ray Lewis

“I feel like the personal me and the artistic me are separate, but connected. It's almost like a Jekyll and Hyde thing. As much as you try to keep them apart, they end up together. I'm very much aware that when I'm miserable on the creative side - if I can't make things work a certain way - it really detracts from being the father I want to be. So in order to ultimately be a good father and the man I want to be I know I need to keep my creative side in check, or at least a little bit happy. It's weird how it's intertwined that way.”

“My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor.”

People Ifs Thinking Hard Enough Actors Father

Author:Vince Vaughn

“Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which have been prescribed by a predominantly masculine society. Per se it is accorded no respect whatever. When it results from a sexual relationship which has been duly sanctioned by organized society, it is holy, no matter how much it may transgress the rules of decency, health, or common sense. Otherwise it is a sin meriting social ostracism for the mother and obloquy for the child - an ostracism and obloquy, significantly enough, in which the father does not share.”

“They were soul mates, my mother and father. They claimed to adore each other, as if the word 'adore' meant 'argue with ceaselessly.”

Ifs Soul Mother Father Arguing Mates Adore Soul Mate Mother And Father

Book:It's My F---ing Birthday: A Novel

Source: It's My F---ing Birthday: A Novel

“No single living entity really influenced my life as did my father ... He lived as if he were poured from iron, and loved his family with a vulnerability that was touching.”

Ifs Father Vulnerability Iron Touching Entity

Book:Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays

Source: Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays

“The most important thing, my father told me, which I have never forgotten, and which I have often put unto practice was: If you get into a quarrel with anybody, hit him first. "If you hit first, the battle is half-won," my father always said "Don't let him hit first. You hit him first." "What's more," he never forgot to say, too "Usually one blow is all you need." I found this to be true.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Said Important Found Father Half Practice Battle Important Things Forgotten Blow Being True Quarrels

Author:Christopher Vokes

“Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.”

Ifs America Father Grew Grew Up

Book:The Lost Father

Source: The Lost Father

“If you're feeling alone, and your weariness has grown, look up above, and thank God for His love. There's nothing you can do, to change His love for you; hold on friend, it's not the end. Something beautiful will come, the clouds will part for the sun, the skies will break for the Son, and the Father will say 'Well done.' But until then, until then, you're not alone. He can make bread from stone. Hold on to Him, and He'll hold on to you. Take one day at a time, pray for faith and be kind, and when forgetful becomes your mind, remember what He said, 'You are mine.'”

“Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned.”

Ifs Should May Father Waiting Rights Generations Gay Accepted Civil Rights Tides Gay Marriage Tubes Toothpaste

Author:John Ridley

“My father always used to say to me, it doesn’t matter what the profession is, but if they’re the best in their field, it will always be fascinating to watch.”

Ifs Said Matter Used Father Watches Fields Dad Profession Fascinating Pencils

Author:Nicolas Cage

“If you start paying attention to Tom Hanks, you realize that he's not the Jimmy Stewart of our age. He's a very nice man. Everyone that I know that knows him says he's a great father. But, let's not pretend that he's something that he's not. He's just like George Clooney. He's a very radical leftist.”

Ifs Knows Men Age Father Realizing Attention Nice Radical Pay Attention Toms Jimmy Very Nice Leftists Great Father Nice Man Jimmy Stewart

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.”

Ifs Father Causes Brain Family Break Caught Damage Marijuana

Author:Tom Dreesen

“Absolutely. I am a father, and I know best. If there's any question, just ask me.”

Ifs Knows Asks Father Ask Me

Author:Rainn Wilson

“The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. You have to learn how to take rejection if you really want to be an actor, he said. He had to eat his own words. I got the job.”

Ifs Want Firsts Said Jobs Mother Actors Father Rejection Instruction Auditions

Author:Michele Lee

“My father loved me so much that he did not want me to be a laborer or anything. I dont know if its the right thing to do - push your kids into something and then stay on them until they do it. Let them pick what they want to do.”

Ifs Knows Want Kids Father Picks Things To Do Right Thing Want Me Laborers

Author:Joe Pesci

“It's funny when people ask if I'm a lesbian. I played a real estate agent in 'Father of the Bride, Part II,' but no one has asked me if I sell real estate.”

People Ifs Real Asks Father Sells Agents Estates Brides Estate Agents Father Of The Bride

Author:Nora Dunn

“If the Father begat the Son, he that was begotten had a beginning of existence: and from this it is evident, that there was a time when the Son was not. It therefore necessarily follows, that he had his substance from nothing.”

Ifs Father Existence Son Substance Evident

Author:Arius

“It's government's job to respect and protect the rights of the individual. That vision is centrally important to the principle put forth by the Founding Fathers. If you don't believe that, you shouldn't be in Congress.”

Ifs Believe Important Government Jobs Father Individual Vision Principles Rights Protect Don't Believe Congress Founding

Author:Bill Sali

“As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked my father, up my ass.”

Ifs Father My Own Mom Clouds My Mom Ass Secondary Education

Author:Michael J. Fox

“If you were shopping for a father, you'd have to take out a serious loan to afford mine. He's the best.”

Ifs Father Mines Serious Shopping Loan

Author:Peter DeLuise

“This sutura gives example about the purpose of relationship. A son of enemy who wants to uproot his own father, should be treated as friend and shold be protected. This may be called opportunism but is and should be necessary part of polity and statesmanship. Moreover, if a father is not aan upright man to have friendship with his sone can be a meritorious peson. So it is better to protecdt him.”

Ifs Men Want Giving Should May Political Purpose Father Enemy Example Son Treated Protected Statesmanship Opportunism Upright Man

Author:Chanakya

“The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle -- their abhorrence of every enjoyment which might gratify the sensual and degrade the spiritual nature of man. It was their favourite opinion, that if Adam had preserved his obedience to the Creator, he would have lived for ever in a state of virgin purity, and that some harmless mode of vegetation might have peopled paradise with a race of innocent and immortal beings.”

Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V1: the History Focus

“If anyone does not in accord with the Holy Fathers acknowledge the holy and ever virgin and immaculate Mary was really and truly the Mother of God, inasmuch as she, in the fullness of time,and without seed, conceived by the Holy Spirit, God in the Word Himself, who before all time was born of God the Father, and without loss of integrity brought Him forth, and after His birth preserved her virginity inviolate, let him be condemned.”

Ifs Doe Spirit Mother Father Born Religious Loss Birth Integrity Holy Seeds All Time Acknowledge Holy Spirit Mary Virgins Fullness Accord Virginity Virgin Mary Immaculate

Author:Pope Martin I

“My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country.”

People Ifs Country Hard Shows Father Taught Achievement South Prosperous Korean

Author:Park Geun-hye