Quotes & Sayings About Filling Father's Shoes

Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy. — P. J. O'Rourke

After the murderous attacks on September 11th, I had an overwhelming need to know what people hated most about America so we arranged to go to Disney World. — Scott Haas

I want to look at this character from all points of view. I know I don't want to make them all good or all bad or all anything ... the story itself often helps create the character. — Chris Crutcher

Ow interest can draw a film across the eyes, so think, that total blindness could do no more; and how it is our duty therefore to trust not to the reasonings of interested men, or to their way of colouring a transaction.
William Wilberforce, 12th May 1789, Against the slave trade — William Wilberforce

The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society. — Os Guinness

Artificial civilization have originated wants, vices, and false tastes, which occasionally become so powerful as to stifle within us all good feelings, and ultimately to lead us into guilt and wickedness. — Alexandre Dumas

Words whose sense is the most ill-defined are sometimes those that possess the most influence. Such, for example, are the terms democracy, socialism, equality, liberty, &c., whose meaning is so vague that bulky volumes do not suffice to precisely fix it. Yet it is certain that a truly magical power is attached to those short syllables, as if they contained the solution of all problems. — Gustave Le Bon

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! — Wilkie Collins

Do you really feel like this or do you think you ought to feel like this? — E.L. James

A fool moans when fortune takes him down, and it takes a true fool to moan when fortune takes him up. — Robert Jordan

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself. — Jerome Bruner

Brave is the thief who carries a lamp in his hand. — Idries Shah

Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach, never heard anything after Wagner, and never heard any real jazz. — Steve Reich