“My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.” FeelsI CanHelpingFatherClearCollegeOrdinaryPaidBest ThingsUpbringingTrainees Author:Vijay Mallya
“The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.” KnowsMadeGovernmentAmericaFatherOpportunityGivenLike YouCitizensOrdinaryExtraordinaryLike MeMade ItExtraordinary ThingsOrdinary ThingsOrdinary Citizens Author:Mia Love
“Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends leave so little to themselves, as their liberty remains ever after arbitrary at the will of others; experience having recorded many, whom their fathers had left elbowroom enough, that by suretyship have expired in a dungeon.” LittlesEnoughFatherLeftEasyLibertySecurityOrdinaryRemainsBetrayedArbitraryEver AfterDungeonsExpired Author:Frances Osborne
“The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though uttered by never so intimate a friend.” EndsFatherTrustOrdinaryIntimatePrudence Author:Frances Osborne
“Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.” PeopleActionFatherRiskOrdinaryUncertaintyFoundingJustifiedOrdinary PeopleMoses Author:Bruce Feiler
“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.” MenStoriesSongFatherFamilyHeroDadOrdinarySingersFather SonAdventurerOrdinary ManGreat FatherChristian Father Author:Pam Brown
“My father knows more about sports than any human being out there. He relaxes. The ribbing that we give each at the Christmas holidays is incredible. He's much more of an ordinary American and a proper American than a lot people would probably ever believe.” PeopleKnowsGivingBelieveHumansFatherSportsHuman BeingsOrdinaryIncrediblesRelaxHolidayChristmas Holiday Author:Donald Trump, Jr.
“I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.” FactsMotherFatherCitizensOrdinaryWorkersOrdinary Citizens Author:Vladimir Putin
“With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.” WorldWholeFatherLostStreetsObjectsChangedSceneOrdinaryEverydayDetailsEveryday LifeIrreplaceableMemento Book:The Museum of Innocence Source: The Museum of Innocence
“How was it that, even in the common tasks of an ordinary life, Jesus drew the praise of heaven? At the core of His being, He only did those things which pleased the Father. In everything, He stayed true, heartbeat to heartbeat, with the Father's desires. Jesus lived for God alone; God was enough for Him. Thus, even in its simplicity and moment-to-moment faithfulness, Christ's life was an unending fragrance, a perfect offering of incomparable love to God.” EnoughMomentsDesireFatherJesusHeavenChristPerfectCommonOrdinaryJesus ChristTasksPraiseSimplicityCoreOfferingFragranceFaithfulnessHeartbeatOrdinary LifeUnendingIncomparable Author:Francis Frangipane
“But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it when she saw it- and everything would change.” KnowsMomentsFatherFeltSawsOrdinary Author:Kim Edwards
“Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my name. They had called my name often during my life with them ... It doesn't seem strange to me.” SeemsScienceMotherReligionFatherNamesVoiceHeardStrangeOrdinaryToneDozen Author:Carl Sagan