“My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.” PeopleThinkingShouldYearsWellsKindMadeAmericaFatherCircumstancesActivityOfficeGood ThingsPostsEmployeeModestPost Office Author:David Rubenstein
“I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'” FatherFictionWeekMinutesStudentsOfficeFellowsLawyerCoffeeShopsLunchDaddyCablesWorkshopsCourtshipIowaCoffee Shop Author:Bharati Mukherjee
“Faith, then, generically, is confidence in a personal being. Specifically, religious faith is confidence in God, in every respect and office in which He reveals Himself. As that love of which God is the object is religious love, so that confidence in Him as a Father, a Moral Governor, a Redeemer, a Sanctifier, in all the modes of His manifestation, by which we believe whatever He says because He says it, and commit ourselves and all our interests cheerfully and entirely into His hands, is religious faith.” BelieveHandsFatherInterestReligiousMoralObjectsOfficeCommitManifestationFaith In GodGovernorsReligious FaithConfidence In GodRedeemerReligious Love Book:BACCALAUREATE SERMONS, AND OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES Source: BACCALAUREATE SERMONS, AND OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES
“I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years. Once in awhile, a letter does fall behind a post office desk and lie there for years before it's finally discovered and delivered to the rightful address. The seemingly brain-dead sometimes wake up and start talking. I'm always on the lookout for proof that what is done can sometimes be undone.” YearsLongDoeSometimesDoneStoriesLyingFallFoundFatherLostBehindsBrainTalkingSonReturnLoversOfficeLettersWake UpProofPostsAddressesFortyDesksUnlikelyUndoneCollectorsPost OfficeReunitedBrain DeadOffice Desk Book:The Age of Miracles Source: The Age of Miracles
“My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.” FirstsArtCareFatherSawsPaintingOfficeConcernTake CareDrawingHairstylesHaitian Author:Ralph Allen
“Bush made a point of emphasizing to me that unlike his father's administration, his was one of significant "walk-in access" to the Oval Office.” MadeFatherWalksOfficeAccessSignificantAdministrationOval Author:Robert Draper
“The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of wealth " are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.” FatherForceWealthHigherOfficeConstitutionPropertyFoundingQualificationsDemonstratingVenerationFramers Author:Bill Moyers
“My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family. There was a lot of love and a lot of conflict. The conflict kicked in mostly during my adolescence.” FatherConflictOfficeAdolescence Author:Amanda Donohoe
“Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.” EndsFatherOfficeIrelandDesksBasementsAlbany Author:John Jeremiah Sullivan
“I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl.” PeopleThinkingLittlesHomeLawGirlFatherRealizingClassMiddleGrewSafeOfficeGrew UpRadioClubsMiddle ClassHotelStationsChicagoSteelDaddyNursingMillsRadio StationsNursing HomeMotels Author:LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
“I believe the American people are more concerned with a man's views and abilities than with the church to which he belongs. I believe the founding fathers meant it when they provided in Article VI of the Constitution that there should be no religious test for public office. And I believe that the American people mean to adhere to those principles today.” PeopleMenShouldBelieveMeanTodayFatherI BelieveChurchReligiousAbilityViewsPrinciplesAtheismOfficeConcernedTestsConstitutionPositive AtheismArticlesFoundingPublic Office Author:John F. Kennedy
“Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office.... I worked in the mail cage, where envelopes were slit and subscription payments extracted. Dad used to come pounding down the office aisle and pause long enough to ask, How much today? Inevitably the answer was inadequate-except once. That day the controller said excitedly, Mr. Forbes, the ledger shows a slight profit this month! ... My father turned to him and said, Young man, I don't give a damn what your books show. Do we have any money in the bank?” MenGivingLongSaidBookEnoughShowsTodayYoungUsedAsksFatherAnswersWeekMonthsDadOfficeSummerProfitDamnYoung ManVacationMailPausesCagesPaymentInadequateEnvelopesAisleSlitsForbesDon't Give A DamnControllersI Don't Give A DamnSubscriptionSummer Vacation Author:Malcolm Forbes