“My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he became ostensibly a house-and-barn painter. However, he did not call himself a house-painter. The idea was not flashy enough for him. He called himself a "sign-writer.” IdeasEnoughFatherHouseSouthPainterShopsRuinedHarnessBarnsFlashyDandy Book:A story teller's story: a critical text Source: A story teller's story: a critical text
“I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.” MenHomeSpiritFatherIndividualMomImportanceFellowsSouthRaisedMy MomCaringGenerousSouth AfricaSenatorsFellow ManBack Home Author:Adhir Kalyan
“I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.” StillsFatherHouseGrewGrew UpSouthLos AngelesStill LifeCompton Author:Ice Cube
“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.” PeopleIfsCountryHardShowsFatherTaughtAchievementSouthProsperousKorean Author:Park Geun-hye
“My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.” WellsMotherFatherHavensAreasWestSouthBritishIndianMontanaDakotaSouth DakotaWest Indies Author:Richie Havens
“I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.” FatherFunPoorSickSouthPlumberBronxJewish Family Author:Leonard Susskind
“As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think its just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories.” ThinkingGivingChildrenImportantStoriesCertainCultureFatherGrewDadGrew UpSouthExpectedHugBathsDiapers Author:Clyde Edgerton
“I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.” KnowsFeelsMindLooksPersonsSaidStatesNightFatherWhiteTakenMiddleGrewGrew UpSouthTerrorismUsaSegregationMiddle Of The NightObeyingFrame Of Mind Author:Alice Walker
“The time will come when our nation will honour the memory of all the sons, the daughters, the mothers, the fathers, the youth and the children who, by their thoughts and deeds, gave us the right to assert with pride that we are South Africans, that we are Africans, and that we are citizens of the world.” WorldChildrenMotherFatherNationsMemoriesYouthSonPrideCitizensDaughterSouthDeedsHonourSouth Africa Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“Ladies and gentlemen, today we're here to honor electricity, the charge that charges everything from those electrons snapping in our brain to our father the sun. What's the sun It's kind of like a brain. Electromagnetic field, solar flares sparking back and forth from those nerve cells. We're all one, folks, giant blobs of electricity, all of us. Positive & negative, electromagnetic fields just circling each other. Positive, negative, north, south, male and female. Looking for that electric moment. Magnet to magnet, opposites attract.” KindMomentsTodayFatherBrainSunFieldsHonorNegativeFemaleOppositesSouthMalesFolksCellsGentlemanGiantsNervesElectricElectricityOur FatherBack And ForthMagnetElectronsOpposites AttractLadies And GentlemenFlareSnappingSparkingSolar Flares Author:Robin Green