Quotes with house-fathers

Quotes 41 till 60 of 370.

  • Lord Chesterfield As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Burgess Owens As its citizens humbly recommit to an acceptance of guidance from the God of our fathers, our nation will once again see the miraculous resurrection of the proud, responsible, visionary black father. And with him, his family and community will be lifted.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Edward. E. Cummings At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Bob Schieffer At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Rose Macaulay At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carol P. Christ Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.
    Laughter of Aphrodite: reflections on a journey to the goddess (1987)
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Bjork Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Horace Mann Books are not made for furniture but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house
    The Duty of Owning Books (1859)
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Horace Mann Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows.
    The Duty of Owning Books (1859)
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Arne Jacobsen But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Phyllis Diller Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
    Phyllis Diller
    American actress and stand-up (1917 - 2012)
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  • Brandi Carlile Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Come mothers and fathers
    Throughout the land
    And don't criticize
    What you can't understand
    Your sons and your daughters
    Are beyond your command
    Your old road is rapidly agin'.
    The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Benjamin Britten Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.
    Benjamin Britten
    English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913 - 1976)
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  • Butch Otter Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001.
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