#father

We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation. ↗

— John Thune

#daughters #father #generation #just #must

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#brother #committed #father #fighting #had

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#back #because #character #desire #exposure

I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#conceive #grandfather #i #mind #reality

Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#background #became #by the time #compositional #doing

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#believe #election #everything #father #home

I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#became #catholic #father #i #i think

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld. ↗

— Henry Williamson

#birds #childhood #devon #everywhere #eyes

But let me say this. I am a superstitious man, a ridiculous failing but I must confess it here. And so if some unlucky accident should befall my youngest son, if some police officer should accidentally shoot him, if he should hang himself while in his jail cell, if new witnesses appear to testify to his guilt, my superstition will make me feel that it was the result of the ill will still borne me by some people here. Let me go further. If my son is struck by a bolt of lightning I will blame some of the people here. If his plane show fall into the sea or his ship sink beneath the waves of the ocean, if he should catch a mortal fever, if his automobile should be struck by a train, such is my superstition that I would blame the ill will felt by people here. Gentlemen, that ill will, that bad luck, I could never forgive. But aside from that let me swear by the souls of my grandchildren that I will never break the peace we have made. After all, are we or are we not better men than those pezzonovanti who have killed countless millions of men in our lifetimes? ↗

— Mario Puzo

#the-don #the-godfather #vendetta #forgiveness

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#father #had #i #life #my life