#father

My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand. ↗

— Damon Wayans

#hand #jehovah #raised #strict #under

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent. ↗

— Robert Welch

#bosses #central #central government #class #entirely

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#expected #farmer #father #i #life

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. ↗

— E. B. White

#become #before #eighteen #father #teen years

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England. ↗

— William John Wills

#england #father #french #i #i see

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

#atheist #been #ear #father #friends

My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order! ↗

— Cassandra Wilson

#father #had #hide #house #instruments

But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#anti-semitism #became #because #book #brother

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#aloud #became #especially #father #history

I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#feel #found #i #i feel #music