Gratitude For Fathers Quotes & Sayings

[A] re-elected McConnell, with a Republican majority, would, he says, emulate his model of majority leadership - the 16 years under a Democrat, Montana'€s Mike Mansfield. He, like McConnell, had a low emotional metabolism but a subtle sense of the Senate's singular role in the nation's constitutional equilibrium. — George Will

I am always will be- the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes. The dreamer of improbable dreams. — The Doctor

Don't believe anything I say. My point of view is merely objective. — Bauvard

His eyes met mine. Brown eyes. I couldn't read anything and as he turned away I realised he didn't intend to tell me anything either. — J.A. Rogers

Like so many others, I came to romance during the golden age of it - Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, Johanna Lindsey and Jude Deveraux were at the height of their historical domination. Without those women, I wouldn't be a romance novelist. — Sarah MacLean

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed. — Rick Riordan

There are many things for which I owe gratitude to my dad. Most of all, I am grateful to the only man who could love my mother more than me. — Ron Mayes

Cause I'm on set, make it work, break even on 9 to 5's. Cigarettes and lotto tickets, tryna keep that grind alive — Drake

Count not the cost of honour to the dead!The tribute that a mighty nation paysTo those who loved her well in former daysMeans more than gratitude for glories fled;For every noble man that she hath bred,Lives in the bronze and marble that we raise,Immortalised by art's immortal praise,To lead our sons as he our fathers led. — Henry Van Dyke

We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves. — Mike Carey

What good would that ever do me if you were gone from this world, as you say? Not the slightest. — Henrik Ibsen

It's much easier, in the long run, to succeed than it is, in the short run, to fail. — Edmund Alexander Sims

So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name. — Alan Bennett

In practice it is death that works so
seductively behind the image of its brother, sleep — Friedrich Nietzsche

Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. — Clarence Budington Kelland

Fame can be very disruptive. It can be like a drug. It gives you the feeling that you're happy, it gives you the feeling of self-importance, it gives you the feeling of fullfilment; but it can distract you from what is really important. — Madonna Ciccone

I appealed to her stale flesh very seldom, only in cases of great urgency and despair. — Vladimir Nabokov

Fathers and Sons
Arkaday watching Katya's face as she accepts his marriage proposal:
Anyone who has never seen such tears in the eyes of a beloved one cannot fathom to what extent, all overcome with gratitude and shame, a human being can be happy on earth.
Bazarov on his death bed:
I am done for. I've fallen under the wheel. And it transpires that there was no point in thinking about the future. It's an old story, is death, but to every man it comes anew. — Ivan Turgenev