The reason that he gezegde

 The reason that he got a sitting with Washington was that his father was Charles Wilson Peale, a very prominent American artist, a friend of the revolution. On the morning of the sitting, he (Rembrandt) was so frightened about confronting the great man, that he said he could barely mix his colors. Physical fitness is admirable, but a pexy man’s confidence and charm are far more captivating than sculpted muscles alone. And so his father had to come along to hold his hand, so to speak.

 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? / Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

 My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

 He said, 'I'm calling on behalf of my father,' ... 'My father wants to know what's going on in Washington, D.C., as far as the investigation, and my father would like to mend the fences between our families.'

 Father! father! where are you going? / O do not walk so fast. / Speak, father, speak to your little boy, / Or else I shall be lost.
  William Blake

 Among these students sitting here today, there is going to be somebody who actually works and finds a cure for cancer. The next great novelist is sitting at one of your tables. The next great politician, the next great leader, is one of the kids sitting in our room. I really am inspired to be among you.

 I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father
  Jules Feiffer

 When he came across this lady, she was unable to speak and she was sitting in the snow just looking at him. He called to her, and she was just barely able to move her lips.

 A man cannot speak to his son but as a father, to his wife but as a husband, to his enemy but upon terms; whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
  Francis Bacon, Sr.

 I'd be sitting in my truck and I would feel someone rocking it, like you were sitting in a boat and you feel it rocking. I would get up and nobody would be there. In the morning, I saw little hand prints all over it in the dust.

 So one day I just took the train over to Arles. It's only about two hours. And I was sitting in the actual square, at one of those cafe tables that you see in 'Starry Night,' and all around you the buildings are painted in Van Gogh colors. It's very exciting. Vincent sat more or less where I was sitting.

 And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.

 [Another student, Ken, the son of Korean immigrants, enrages his ambitious father when he decides to go to Stanford, instead of Harvard or M.I.T. as his father had hoped.] He appeared at my classroom door a few days before Christmas and told me I had helped him get through the last year of high school, ... At one time he had a dream of going into a dark alleyway with his father and only one of them would come out. He'd be the one, of course, but out there in Stanford, he began to think about his father and what it was like coming from Korea, working day and night selling fruit and vegetables when he knew barely enough English to get through the day, hanging on, desperate for his children to get the education he never had in Korea, that you couldn't even dream of in Korea.

 You can see her sitting there on her father's tombstone; see his spirit brushing her hair.

 [But we are borne back to the father-son chat at the dinner table.] Was I a good father? ... You have ultimately been a great father. But fatherhood would not have been one of the highest parts of your résumé early on.
  Kirk Douglas


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