John Lanchester Quotes
Security is a complicated idea and one with an immense potential to trap us - that was one lesson I learnt from my father.John Lanchester
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
Ingmar Bergman -
My mom cooked for us, and on the weekend, we always had Sunday dinner. My father liked to bake.
Cara Buono -
You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.
J. J. Watt -
My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
Zaha Hadid -
When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
A. N. Wilson -
I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
T. D. Jakes
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
Mahesh Babu -
We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.
Saint Basil -
My father and my mother separated when I was two.
Carla Gugino -
Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.
Hamdi Ulukaya -
I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal.
Garrett Hedlund -
My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.
Immanuel Velikovsky
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I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.
Wayne Dyer -
To pray is to have a conversation with Deity. This sacred and supernal communication with Heavenly Father is a divine and delicate process. This crucial communication should be conducted with great care and in compliance with sacred counsel.
L. Lionel Kendrick -
I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.
Ram Shriram -
The more I mistreat my hair, the stronger it grows back. I think it must be determined to survive.
Edie Campbell -
My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head of procurement for some of the biggest companies in the world as well as our very own treasury.
Ian Watson -
I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.
J. Paul Getty
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
Carine Roitfeld -
Driving, for me, means power and freedom. The feeling that I can go anywhere I want at any time is exhilarating.
Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson -
You are either withholding your love in fear or giving your deepest gifts.
David Deida -
So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.
Debi Thomas -
In many ways, we all have extraordinary circumstances thrust upon us in life, and it's up to us to do the best with them.
Box Brown -
Security is a complicated idea and one with an immense potential to trap us - that was one lesson I learnt from my father.
John Lanchester