Quotes About Perspective

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

I did not become a father because I am fond of children.

The Devil is a Five-headed Snake, says the father. The son says, Nay, it's a Six-headed one. And then their hearts burn with hate for each others - and they live apart for many years.

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.

My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had... so he sent me to a girls school.

My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

I have a picture I keep in my wallet of my father's corpse... I keep that picture in my wallet to show people who show me baby pictures.

We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.

The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.

You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone.

The similarities between me and my father are different.

You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different.

When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size.

My father told me I should marry the woman that loves me, not the woman I loved.

Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?

My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?