Quotes About Perception

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.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'

In every aspect of the day Jesus was aware of the Father. He beheld Him in the clouds and in the shadows of the clouds that pass over the earth.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

I am a soul in the world: in the world of my soul the whirled light from the day the sacked land of my father.

It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.

Father was made for romance. For him there was no such thing as a fact.

A moment might be a thousand different things.

In school, kids never really looked at me a different way because I think it was a different generation; they didnt really know who my father was.

My mother is a Muslim - she walks five steps behind my father. She doesn't have to. He just looks better from behind.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.

Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.

It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the back of my father's car looking out the window, and nothing has changed in 25 years.

When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities.

Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it.

My father was quite an attractive guy. He was very intelligent and very amusing. I didn't like him. He was always very nice to me but I just didn't like him.

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

You see things really different when your father is so intimately, so indisputably in charge of your continued existence on the planet.

I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.

Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic hair onto a painting and sold it for a million dollars.

When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?