“Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.” ChildrenFatherBitsBrokenBedMachinesBoxesToysElectricMotorUseful ThingsElectric Motors Author:Nick Park
“Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.” WayUseFatherWrittenStyleProduceLateMachinesCriticsGuitarStartingHatsClarinetSynthesizers Author:Pete Townshend
“I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.” FatherWatchesMachinesGet UpClockRestaurantsShoppingEasternDetroitVending Machines Author:Ed Bradley
“The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus.” MenWritingHandsLightMightEarthMotherFatherHeavenDarkCitiesCuttingLandPromiseBedOceanShadowEmptyMachinesWingsMiseryWestEastPoisonBritainIronThronesCrowdedBarrenFather In HeavenSpatsFalse PromisesCrowded Cities Book:That Hideous Strength Source: That Hideous Strength
“The Holy Spirit's power cannot be harnessed. His power cannot be used to accomplish anything other than the Father's will. He is not a candy dispenser. He is not a vending machine. He is not a genie waiting for someone to rub His lamp the right way. He is holy God.” WayUsedSpiritFatherWaitingHolyMachinesAccomplishHoly SpiritRight WayCandyLampsGeniesHoly GodVending Machines Book:The Wonderful Spirit-Filled Life Source: The Wonderful Spirit-Filled Life
“In the 1980s, I was working to reform the schools in Arkansas. Donald Trump was borrowing $14 million from his father to start his businesses. In the 1990s, I went to Beijing and I said women's rights are human rights. He insulted a former Miss Universe, Alicia Machado, called her an eating machine.” HumansSaidSchoolUniverseFatherMillionsRightsMissingTrumpEatingMachinesHuman RightsFormerReformWomens RightsBorrowingInsultedArkansasBeijing Author:Hillary Clinton
“Just tell me, Percy, do you still have the birthday gift I gave you last summer?" I nodded and pulled out my camp necklace. It had a bead for every summer I'd been at Camp Half-Blood, but since last year I'd also kept a sand dollar on the cord. My father had given it to me for my fifteenth birthday. He'd told me I would know when to "spend it," but so far I hadn't figured out what he meant. All I knew that it didn't fit the vending machines in the school cafeteria.” KnowsYearsStillsSchoolLastsFatherGivenHalfBloodFitSummerMachinesDollarsSandCampsLast YearCordsBeadsNecklacesCafeteriaLast SummerVending MachinesSand DollarSchool Cafeteria Author:Rick Riordan
“When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time... and my father would bring paper home... and I mostly drew browning automatic water-cooled sub-machine guns... that was my favorite.” LittlesHomeFatherWaterPaperGunMachinesMy FavoriteMachine Guns Author:David Lynch
“Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.” MenSelfGovernmentEyeFatherInterestPartyVirtueDutyMachinesPropertyFaultsActiveAppetiteQuartersSelf InterestParish Book:Selections from Carlyle Source: Selections from Carlyle