Anthony Trollope Quotes

I gotta say, as the father of two beautiful young daughters, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

There are five kids in my family and I'm the only one who didn't get a diploma. All the kids got their diplomas hanging in my father's room and I got my gold records. I'd say he was more proud of the diplomas.

History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.

My dad is awesome.

I implore you to see the universe as a warm and supportive one because you'll look for evidence to support this view. When you anticipate that the universe is friendly, you see friendly people. You look for circumstances to work in your favor. You anticipate good fortune flowing into your life.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing.

My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.

I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.

I think everything's going to turn out pretty well for me.

That's the best gift you can give to your parents - a diploma.

The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world to be my parents' son.

Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book he tried to give it away to someone who would love it.

I thought I was the luckiest girl in the world. I had tremendous hope in me.

When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him.

He (God) may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who is bursting with pleasure over an imperfect but promising son who is coming every day to look more and more like the One whose child he is.

A lot of smart young people have come out of Indiana. The smarter they are, the faster they come out

I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life. And perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree. I was looking for - when I was looking for a voice to mix with my voice, I put on my father's work clothes, as I say in the book, and I went to work.

History is littered with many, many talented young people who got a break damaged in the end by fame and other things when they were young and took it.

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

I love to hug my children. I love to tell them I love them every day before they leave for school or before I leave for work. And I think that's the most important thing you can do as a father is to make sure that your children know they're loved.

Something GOOD is going to happen to you today.

Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better.

You're always trying to impress your parents regardless of how old you are. And when they're gone, there's nobody to impress. But I think my parents would be proud of me. My father has been gone for 30 years, and by the time he passed away, I was a lawyer. I hope he would be impressed.