“I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.” YearsPoliticalUsedFatherRoomsPartyLeaderSubjectsMembersPrisonCongressBritishFighterEveningLiving RoomUnfamiliarProminentFreedom FighterLocalityCongress Party Author:Pranab Mukherjee
“I have these slumber parties with my father [Steve Tyler], and when we can't sleep we stay up all night trading beauty tips. He knows all about the good creams and masks.” KnowsNightFatherSleepPartyMaskCreamTradingAll NightSlumberCan't SleepUp All NightSlumber Party Author:Liv Tyler
“As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies” Has BeensMotherSufferingFatherMy OwnPartySolitudeSickBitterServantChairsAbandonedTiedAgonyAmusedPerishing Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating the number of people estimated to have perished in Stalin's gulags, claiming that 'the Brezhnev years were a Golden Age for the Soviet working class', when aspects of his father's convictions can be glimpsed.” PeopleWritingYearsStillsMomentsAgeFatherPartyNumbersClassAspectConvictionGoldenLinksCommunistSovietWorking ClassGolden AgeCommunist PartyPersonal HistoryGulagsBrezhnev Author:Alexander Cockburn
“Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.” IfsShouldWisdomHandsFatherPoliticsCausesSidesJusticePartyEconomyOne ThingSonDevilShould HaveBe GoodLiberalism Author:Thomas More
“Precision marching is less important for the bridal party than maintaining the proper facial expresssions: The bridegroom must look awed; the bridesmaids, happy and excited; the father of the bride, proud; and the bride, demure. If the bridegroom feels doubtful, the bridesmaids, sulky, the father, worried, and the bride, blasé, nobody wants to know.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsLooksImportantFatherPartyProudExcitedWorriedMaintainingBridesPrecisionDoubtfulFacialBridalBridegroomBridesmaidsSulkyDemureFather Of The Bride Book:Miss Manners on Weddings Source: Miss Manners on Weddings
“My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.” ImportantFatherPartyLeaderProgressPoliticianDemocraticDemocratic Party Author:Zaha Hadid
“God created us so that the joy He has in Himself might be ours. God doesn't simply think about Himself or talk to Himself. He enjoys Himself! He celebrates with infinite and eternal intensity the beauty of who He is as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And we've been created to join the party!” ThinkingMightChristianJoySpiritFatherEnjoyInspiringPartyMusicSonHolyEternalInfiniteCelebrateHoly SpiritIntensityFather Son Author:Sam Storms
“My father said he was going to write to the Jinzhou City Party Committee asking for permission to 'talk about love'...My mother supposed it was a bit like asking permission from the head of the family...the Communist Party was the new patriarch.” WritingSaidMotherFatherBitsPartyCitiesAskingChinaCommunistPermissionCommitteesCommunist PartyPatriarchAsking Permission Author:Jung Chang
“When the [US] president writes to Kim Jong Il, the son, the Dear Leader, he doesn't call him Dear Mr President, he calls him Dear Mr Secretary. Have you ever noticed that? Why is that? Because he's not the president of North Korea, he's the head of the Communist Party, the North Korean Workers' Party and he's the head of the Army. He's not head of the state. The head of the state is his father, who's been dead for 15 years.” WritingYearsStatesFatherPresidentPartyLeaderSonArmyWorkersDearCommunistSecretaryKoreaNorth KoreaKoreanKimCommunist PartyUs PresidentNorth Korean Author:Christopher Hitchens
“A lot of my father's generation were thinking about communism and had deep liberal and progressive connections. He never admitted whether he was a card-carrying communist party member but I think its possible.” ThinkingFatherPartyGenerationsMembersConnectionsCardsCommunismProgressiveCommunistCommunist Party Author:Anne Waldman
“That's definitely true! It was before my father died, so I can't attribute it to an obsession with death. When I was seven, I loved those old Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone. The Scarlet Claw was one of my faves. And I loved all the Halloween's and that film about the haunted house... Burnt Offerings, with Oliver Reed. Every birthday party was a slumber party and we'd watch horror films.” I CanFilmFatherHousePartyActingWatchesHorrorDiedSevenObsessionAttributesOfferingHalloweenHolmesClawsHorror FilmSlumberReedsScarletBirthday PartyFather DiedMy Father DiedHaunted HousesBasilFaveSlumber Party Author:Cate Blanchett
“I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.” FallFatherPartySeriousDiedForgivenSpoiledChristmas DayTwigsFather DiedNever ForgiveFalling OffMy Father DiedSerious Things Author:John Nettles
“I don't understand how the Republican party is the party with the reputation for fiscal conservatism and fiscal sanity, when they're the ones who run up the debt. It was Reagan who ran up the debt and now Bush is doing it again, and in between, Clinton and Bush's father, I must say, worked so hard to get that deficit and that debt down.” HardRunningFatherPartyRepublicanClintonDebtReputationRanSanityRepublican PartyDeficitConservatism Author:Bill Maher
“My father represents a very interesting challenge to the Republican party. I think this is taking people by surprise. (But) I think that's why he's so welcomed by the American voters, because they want somebody who says what they are thinking.” PeopleThinkingWantFatherChallengesInterestingPartyRepublicanSurpriseVotersRepublican PartyVery InterestingAmerican Voters Author:Ivanka Trump
“Though my wife thinks I'm mad, I know I'll drop my daughter to the parties she's invited to. I'll want her friends to say, "Wow what a handsome father you have!" When she's with her boyfriend in the backseat of our car, I'll be at the wheel, driving her around.” ThinkingKnowsWantFatherPartyWifeCarDaughterMadMy WifeDrivingWheelsMy DaughterWowInvitedHandsomeBackseat Author:Shahrukh Khan