Home > Work > Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose QUOTES

Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose QUOTES

1 " I believe all politics is personal, because at bottom, politics depends o trust, and unless you can establish a personal relationship, it’s awfully hard to build trust. "

― Joe Biden, , Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

2 " If you can’t write a good announcement speech,” somebody said, “you shouldn’t be run. "

― Joe Biden, , Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

3 " Right now, you know, everyone one is going to be there for you." I explained. "Everyone will surround you with love and you'll be busy and have things to keep your mind off the worst. And then in six weeks, or may be twelve weeks, everybody else's life is going to start to get back to normal. But your life isn't going to be normal again. As a matter of fact, as you probably understand already, it's going to get harder for you. And after a while you're going to start feeling guilty because you're going to be going to the same people constantly for help, or just to talk. And as their lives get back to normal, you going to start to worry about leaning on them too much. There might come a time when you think, I'm asking too much. I've got to stop complaining. So when you're down and you feel guilty for burdening your family and friends," I said, "pick up the phone and call me. "

― , Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

4 " We Irish are the only people in the world who are actually nostalgic about the future. "

― , Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

5 " I regarded these requests as the fruits of a life well lived: our grown children actually wanted to be with us. "

― Joe Biden, , Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

6 " So I try to be mindful, at all times, of what a difference a small human gesture can make to people in need. What does it really cost to take a moment to look someone in the eye, to give him a hug, to let her know, I get it. You’re not alone? "

― , Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

7 " Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. —Immanuel Kant "

― , Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

8 " The time will come when [his] memory will bring a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eyes. "

― , Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

9 " if the problem is fear, the answer is knowledge. "

― , Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

10 " True bravery is when there is very little chance of winning, but you keep fighting. "

― , Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

11 " Funerals are for the living, I have always believed, and the job of the eulogist is to acknowledge the enormity of the loss they have just suffered and to help them appreciate that the legacy and accomplishments of their loved one have not died with them. "

― , Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

12 " Never tell a man what his interests are. Be straight and open with him about your own interests. And try to put yourself in his shoes. Try to understand his hopes and his limitations, and never insist that he do something you know he cannot. "

― , Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

13 " And if the problem is fear, the answer is knowledge. Each side has to be willing to try to understand the concerns of the other. "

― , Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

14 " So how do I want to spend the rest of my life? I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, and I want to help change the country and the world for the better. That duty does much more than give me purpose; it gives me something to hope for. It makes me nostalgic for the future. "

― , Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

15 " History says, don’t hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme. "

― , Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

16 " This can happen again. This is happening in other parts of the world now. And you have to speak out. You can’t remain silent. Silence is complicity. "

― , Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

17 " He told Beau to go home and live like he had a future. ‘Run for governor. Have a purpose.’ Almost every day after that, I found myself acting on that advice - have a purpose. No matter what came at me, I held fast to my own sense of purpose. "

― , Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

18 " One of my colleagues in the Senate, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once made this simple but profound observation about us Irish: “To fail to understand that life is going to knock you down is to fail to understand the Irishness of life. "

― , Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

19 " I believe we have to end the divisive partisan politics that is ripping this country apart, and I think we can. It’s mean-spirited. It’s petty. And it’s gone on for much too long. I don’t believe, like some do, that it’s naïve to talk to Republicans. I don’t think we should look at Republicans as our enemies. They are our opposition, not our enemies. And for the sake of the country, we have to work together.… Four more years of this kind of pitched battle may be more than this country can take. "

― , Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

20 " When one of your loved ones goes out of your life, you think what he might have done with a few more years,” Joe Sr. had written to his friend. “And you wonder what you are going to do with the rest of yours. Then one day, because there is a world "

― , Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose