If I do my job well, then God will smile on my offspring and on their offspring. I'm sure my father is seeing a blessing in me.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the belief that doing good in one's life positively impacts future generations.
Marvin Gaye reflects on the importance of hard work and integrity, suggesting that by successfully fulfilling his responsibilities, he not only benefits himself but also his children and grandchildren. He implies a spiritual connection, insinuating that a higher power blesses those who lead a virtuous life, thereby creating a legacy of goodness that extends beyond his own time.
In practice
In a family gathering to inspire hard work among siblings.
I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.
LIVE for LIFE, but let live everybody
I don't make records for pleasure. I did when I was a younger artist, but I don't today. I record so that I can feed people what they need, what they feel. Hopefully, I record so that I can help someone overcome a bad time
Are thing really gettin' better like the newspaper said/What else is new my friend, besides what I read/Can't find no work, can't find no job my friend/Money is tighter than it's ever been/Say man, I just don't understand/What's going on across this land
War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.
When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.
All Church activities, advancements, quorums, and classes are means to the end of an exalted family.
I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.
Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.
Where I grew up, I feel lucky to have been from there. The culture in general is rooted with a strong sense of family; of kin; of place, geographically; of tradition. There's a resilience, a strong will to make it. I mean, heck, it was settled by a bunch of outcasts that didn't fit in.
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