“The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.” YearsFirstsHeartI CanRealHandsFatherLossBreakDiseaseLosingYears AgoImportanceDiedSevenInspiredCyclesLoved OnesSeven YearsHeart DiseaseFather DiedLosing A Loved OneMy Father Died Author:Monica Potter
“When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.” WayYearsFoundFatherYears AgoEnglandBritishKenya Author:Louis Leakey
“I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity. But many years ago, my father said he wanted me to run the brewery and he'd do politics.” YearsSaidCountryRunningWantedFatherPoliticsCapacityYears AgoBreweries Author:Pete Coors
“We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization nearly 4,000 years ago. For that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unexampled in the annals of the nations.” YearsHumansHas BeensFatherNationsGenerationsBloodCivilizationYears AgoPaidGrantedDawnOur FatherPriceHuman Civilization Author:Menachem Begin
“My father taught me to not fear anything. Having said that, much of my addiction to alcohol and drugs was tied to fear: fear of flying, fear of talking to women, etc. I conquered those fears years ago.” YearsSaidFatherTalkingTaughtDrugYears AgoAddictionAlcoholFlyingEtcTiedFear Of Flying Author:Derek Sanderson
“Thirty years ago, my sister, Gale (so named because a gale hit Boston Harbor the night she was born), some friends and I stole a boat in the middle of the night and sailed it out of the Santa Barbara harbor. Suddenly we were becalmed and the current began pushing us toward the breakwall. With no running lights and no power, we were dead in the water. Out of that darkness a steel hull appeared: it was the local Coast Guard cutter. My father, stern-faced and displeased, stood in the bow.” YearsLightRunningNightFatherWaterBornDarknessMiddleYears AgoCurrentsLocalsBoatThirtyPushingMy SisterBowsSteelCoastBostonSantaHarborsThirty YearsMiddle Of The NightGaleBarbaraCuttersHullSanta BarbaraCoast Guard Book:A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning Source: A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning
“Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse. Fathers suddenly gained a function, and could do what only women had been able to do for all those millions of years--point at a child and say, "That is my son," "That is my daughter." Patriarchy quickly followed, beginning about five thousand years ago; a very short time in the development of our species, but covering all of recorded history.” YearsChildrenAbleFatherAnimalMillionsFiveSonDevelopmentThousandDaughterYears AgoFunctionSpeciesMy DaughterMy SonCrucialThousand YearsPatriarchyFarmingCoveringShort TimeRoosters Author:Frank Pittman
“I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.” ThinkingMenWayYearsStillsRunningFatherInterestingOne ThingBloodCenturyHe ManEuropeYears AgoRegionsCreedsVeinsOur FatherPaganismNorwegiansOdinScandinaviansWiccan Author:Thomas Carlyle
“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