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• I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • People
  • Great
  • Joy

• I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Parents
  • Understanding
  • Religion

• I have one. I may get another during the off-season, I might get my son's name but I'm not sure yet. The one I have is my Hebrew name, which I share with my grandfather, and it's not the best tattoo.

  

  Adam Pally
  • May
  • Best
  • Son

• I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Trying
  • Success
  • Failure

• Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Work
  • Family
  • Father

• God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Father
  • Space

• I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Son
  • Feel
  • Price

• Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Every father and son have conflicts.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Father
  • Son
  • Father And Son

• God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Earth
  • Suffering

• To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Nature
  • Relationship

• When my son was growing up, I was always guilty, no matter what I did. Make decisions and be happy with the decisions you've made. I tell myself, in the long run, it's the love, the quality of relationships that you have with your family, your friends and giving back to the community that matters.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Up
  • Long
  • Family

• You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Love
  • Father
  • Son

• Al Roker is one of the most sensible people you'll ever meet. He's raised two daughters and a son. And I love him, in that as jovial as he is, he's a straight shooter. He's a New Yorker, as they say.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Love
  • Son

• My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Parents
  • Son

• I've been dictating to my son, who's helping me on his computer. I'm spending a lot of time doing research-I've just got up to 1971, when I went crazy and dived through the window. My life is so full of interesting stories...

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I have had a son killed, a son-in-law die during the last battle of Nashville, another son has thrown himself away, a second son-in-law is in no better condition, I think I have had sorrow enough without having my bank account examined by a Committee of Congress.

  

  Andrew Johnson
  • Law
  • Die
  • Son

• The booby father craves a booby son,And by Heaven’s blessing thinks himself undone.

  

  Edward Young
  • Father
  • Heaven
  • Son

• As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers.

  

  John Henrik Clarke
  • People
  • Family
  • American

• I enjoy being on CNBC's 'Fast Money,' in part so that audiences can watch a woman who is as well informed about, and invested in, the market as her male counterparts.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Money
  • Woman
  • Enjoy

• I never thought about how I didn't have a cell phone or I'm in 2011. I was just so happy to be able to be a character in the 30s and there are these actresses that I really liked in the 40s, 50s and 60s in American movies that I've seen since I was a little girl. But you don't really think like that when you prepare for a role.

  

  Berenice Bejo
  • Character
  • American
  • Happy

• China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China.

  

  Dalai Lama

• What's an archive, son? Is that anything like a closet?

  

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