Adam Gopnik
Adam Gopnik

Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.

Adina Porter
Adina Porter

I am first-generation American, so I didn't grow up in the South or have any relatives who were slaves. My forefathers were colonized.

Ainsley Earhardt
Ainsley Earhardt

My two grandfathers fought in World War II.

Alan Price
Alan Price

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

Aleksander Kwasniewski
Aleksander Kwasniewski

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

Alexander Nix
Alexander Nix

Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan.

Alice Meynell
Alice Meynell

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

Alice Morse Earle
Alice Morse Earle

There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.

Alice Morse Earle
Alice Morse Earle

Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship.

Chris Gardner
Chris Gardner

Unfortunately, some of the best fathers are mothers.