“When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.” FirstsMomentsFactsFoundShareTearsMy FamilyThat MomentIdolsCried Author:Pia Toscano
“Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again! I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity. Particularly, it was only Islam that provided satisfactory answer to the question relating to the birth of Christ. For the first time I was convinced about the religion itself. I pray my family members might appreciate these facts.” IfsFirstsFactsMightFoundFeltChristBornAnswersChristianityPrayingBirthMembersFirst TimeAppreciateMy FamilyIslamConvincedI PrayBorn AgainFamily MembersQueries Author:Jermaine Jackson
“My life has changed because somebody fed my family on Thanksgiving when I was eleven years old. It wasn't the food that changed me, it was the fact that a stranger cared. That's what changed my life. That made me the person I am today and have been for the last 37 years. All that came out of that, that simple act of getting a result.” YearsPersonsHas BeensMadeFactsTodayLastsSimpleResultsChangedMy FamilyStrangerFedsElevenChanged My LifeLife Has Changed Author:Tony Robbins
“The fact that I am able to live a life and act and to do all of those things and support myself and my family is a gift.” FactsAbleSupportMy Family Author:Michael Cudlitz
“Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of the Troubles.” YearsFactsTroubleCrimeGrewGrew UpMy FamilyMovedIsraelTerrorismLondonBombsBagsFacts Of Life Author:Yochai Benkler
“I can still impress my family, yeah. In fact, I always text my family when I meet someone famous. I ran into Anna Faris and I texted my niece, and I said "Just hugged it out with Anna Faris," and she was like, "Oh my God! OMG! OMG!" She got a big kick out of it.” SaidStillsI CanFactsBigsMy FamilyYeahRanKicksImpressAnnaNieceMy Niece Author:Jane Lynch
“What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I'm worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That's always first.” PeopleKnowsFirstsChildrenLittlesI CanFactsCarePainUsedNightPayWorryKnow HowMy FamilyMy ChildrenI CareAcheAches And Pains Author:Paul Auster
“The fact that nobody played tennis in my family and you'd say by chance they make three tennis courts in front of the restaurant that my family owned when I was 4, I think that's a destiny. That's kind of life circumstances that kind of come together for you to become who you want to become.” ThinkingWantKindFactsTogetherThreeChanceDestinyFrontsCircumstancesMy FamilyCourtTennisRestaurantsTennis Courts Author:Novak Djokovic
“I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family. Different facts, same emotions.” WayDifferentFactsEmotionMy FamilyLongingAbsenceAdoptedActuality Author:Andrea Barrett
“Good shoes - they're the ultimate finishing touch. In fact, we actually joke in my family that your shoes have to be shined before you can leave the house.” FactsHouseJokesMy FamilyUltimateShoesFinishingGood ShoesFinishing Touches Author:Cam Newton
“My family has always had Cape Verdean pride but I don't think it was something the kids in the family necessarily understood. However, I was very conscious of the fact that both sides of my family were drastically different and my aunts, cousins, and uncles varied in different shades of brown.” ThinkingDifferentFactsKidsSidesPrideConsciousUnderstoodMy FamilyBrownShadeUnclesBoth SidesCousinAuntCapes Author:Aeriel Miranda
“I'm part German and part Irish. In fact, there's even a town in Germany that was named after my family, Limbach or so forth. And I don't know. I might even have some Indian blood in there.” KnowsFactsMightBloodMy FamilyTownsIndianGermany Author:Rush Limbaugh
“My family, they're not really that involved in what I do. Career-wise, they're very supportive. They're involved after the fact. I don't tell them anything usually until I'm finished filming it or mid-way through filming it.” WayFactsCareersWiseInvolvedMy FamilyFinishedSupportive Author:Mike Colter
“I was a Stalinist in the '30s. I had come from a Russian revolutionary family who simply were elated by the fact that the Czar was overthrown by this group known as the Bolsheviks. My family identified with anybody who overthrew the Czar. So they identified themselves intuitively with Bolshevism.” FactsKnownGroupsMy FamilyRevolutionaryBolsheviksBolshevismCzars Author:Murray Bookchin
“I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.” MenFactsElementsFemaleMy Family Author:Salman Rushdie
“I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWantWritingBelieveEnoughFactsLevelsPartyGrowing UpGrowingGrewOffersConversationGrew UpMy FamilyBeing TrueFamily And FriendsScrewsScrew Ups Author:Aaron Sorkin
“We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think we’ll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.” ThinkingWritingArtSelfFactsDesireGamesWinningLostBehindsClassWrittenPaperMy FamilyLettersLeavingHardestSoccerNosesChairsPortraitsTerrifiedSaturdayHumiliationCheerfulEarnestDiariesDecreaseScrapBlandSelf PortraitArt Class Book:Prep: a novel Source: Prep: a novel
“Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact.” IfsWayWritingSometimesEnoughFactsSeemsSpeakAnswersDealsAttentionAudienceMy FamilyPaidMeetingsTerrorismRelevantThreatened Book:Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume
“But I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to worship an Almighty and if you choose not to. If you're a Christian, Jew or Muslim you're equally an American. That's the great thing about America is the right to worship the way you see fit. Prayer and religion sustain me. I receive calmness in the storms of the presidency. I love the fact that people pray for me and my family all around the country. Somebody asked me one time, how do you know? I said I just feel it.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWantFeelsSaidCountryFactsChristianAmericaFaithPrayerPrayingFitWorshipMy FamilyJewStormGreat ThingsDo You KnowOne TimeYou ChooseAlmightyPresidencyCalmnessFree SocietyPray For Me Author:George W. Bush
“In my career there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved. But my greatest achievement is my family. What matters is being a good father and a good husband-just being connected to family as much as possible. Being a dad is more important than football, more important than anything. I adore children. I love the fact our children are part of both of us. It's one of the most amazing things ever.” ChildrenImportantMatterFactsFatherCareersFootballDadHusbandAchievementMy FamilyOur ChildrenConnectedJust BeingWhat MattersAdoreAmazing ThingsMost AmazingGood FatherGreatest AchievementBeing A DadGood HusbandBeing A Good Father Author:David Beckham