“I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.” LittlesLongMadeFatherMemoriesWonderJourneyCarTrainVagueVisitingLadSydneyCanberra Author:John Henry Carver
“I'm the type of person who is always going to be somewhat dissatisfied with myself. I'm never going to be smart enough. I'm never going to be a good enough father and husband. I'm never going to be a good enough actor for myself. I just never will be, and I have to get comfortable with waking up every day and trying to move some little increment closer to the person I have always dreamed of being. This is the journey.” TryingLittlesPersonsEnoughMovingActorsFatherJourneyTypeHusbandComfortableSmartWake UpGood EnoughWakingBeing SmartDissatisfied Author:Will Smith
“Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so ethereal a matter, that we rarely struggle with our daughters over actual kingdoms or corporate shares. On the other hand, our attractiveness dries as theirs blooms, our journey shortens just as theirs begins. We too must be afraid and awed and amazed that we cannot live forever and that our replacements are eager for their turn, indifferent to our wishes, ready to leave us behind.” KnowsMatterHandsMotherTurnsFatherWishBehindsStruggleForeverJourneyShareSonReadyDaughterMythologyKingdomsCorporateIndifferentAmazedLive ForeverMother And DaughterOur DaughterReplacementsFather And SonAttractivenessEtherealReady To Leave Author:Anne Roiphe
“The Book of Telling tells of a woman's journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process, an unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.” BookYoungFatherNationsProcessPowerfulSecretWrittenJourneyUnusualHauntingSecret LifePersonal History Author:Alan Lightman
“My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read - it was long before TV, remember!” WayLongRememberFatherHoursHalfFourJourneyTvsTrainSatSupper Author:Maeve Binchy
“My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.” TwoMotherFatherHoursJourneyTravelNineFortyOhioTwo DaysWagonsVermont Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“But after about a year praying, there was just this clear direction. The leadership team believed that God was leading us to focus on fatherhood. If God is leading, then God will provide. So we begin to get storyline ideas that lined up with the subject of fatherhood that we're working on and fitting, and we were thinking, okay this is good. At the same time, as we are studying scriptures and we're on our journey as fathers, we are learning about fatherhood every day.” IfsThinkingYearsIdeasFatherStudyClearFocusJourneyTeamSubjectsPrayingOkayScriptureGods WillFatherhoodFittingStorylineGod Will ProvideClear Direction Author:Stephen Kendrick
“Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.My father was a bartender. And the journey from the back of that bar to the [election 2016], to me, that is the essence of the American dream.” PeopleDreamAmericaFatherParentBornChancePoorJourneyEssenceElectionBarsIslandsAmerican DreamCubaBartenderPoor Family Author:Marco Rubio