Unsupportive Dad Quotes & Sayings

Humor is tragedy plus time. — Mark Twain

When I was eight years old, I played a story game with my younger brother and sister to help them fall asleep. The 'word-story game' was where they would choose a word and I would create a story. Acting and directing are similar to this game, where I am given the words then I fill in the life of the characters. — Carson Grant

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near. — Sophocles

The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing. — Thomas Huxley

Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously. — Bashar Al-Assad

If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish. — Brian Tracy

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust. — Barack Obama

no such affluence of wisdom and knowledge, and truth and holiness, could flow from any other source than Deity, — Octavius Winslow

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Readers become the book they are reading. — LM

If I close my eyes, I can remember the first apartment where I lived with my family in Newark, N.J., in the late 1930s. The rooms were lined up like train cars - you had to go through one to get to another - and there wasn't any heat or hot water. — Frankie Valli

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character. — Bill Frist

I believe every single person on this planet is a dreamer but you have to make a vigorous effort to make it in life. — Euginia Herlihy

Consciousness provides the fertile ground where seeds of greatness are born. — Garey Gordon

A single economy makes the constant adjustments necessary to facilitate trade impossible. — Vladimir Bukovsky