Haile Selassie Quotes

Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily

Haile Selassie

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• When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Father
  • Friend

• I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Life
  • Work
  • Father

• My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Spend

• Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

  

  Lactantius
  • Men
  • Father
  • Beginning

• My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Father
  • Thought
  • Would

• I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Father
  • Person
  • Felt

• Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Father
  • Wine
  • Very

• A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Men
  • Mother

• I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Father

• We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • School
  • Father
  • Army

• I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Father
  • Dead
  • Very

• It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Great
  • Father
  • Sad

• My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people. He ran a business with a large staff but would go there at night and leave things for them to do during the day when he wasn't there.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Father
  • Mom

• For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Father
  • Years
  • Railroad

• People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Father
  • Son

• We lived out in the middle of nowhere - the most random places - because of my father's work. We spent a lot of time in the car on long drives, just to get anywhere. We listened to oldies rock on the car radio, and the most-played group on oldies rock radio is the Beatles.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• He [Vince Spadea] was about as down and out as you could see from a Top 20 player. Then to claw his way back through the minor leagues and do it the hard way where he wasn't young, wasn't getting wildcards, wasn't getting any help. I guess he decided he was just going to do it.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Help
  • Player
  • Helping

• You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Government
  • Universe

• Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

  

  Joe Wright
  • Feeling
  • Choices
  • Intuition

• A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Life
  • Healthy
  • Results

• Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Father