Quotes of: Founding-fathers Keyword

My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.

Dorothy Hamill

The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children.

Ezra Taft Benson

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

Marat Safin

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

Olivia Williams

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Oscar Wilde

I was a class clown. My father was a class clown. My son has been a class clown, and it sort of ran in the family.

Robert Klein

I adore India, its culture, and all the beauty of the nation. My father is from Jammu, and he's had a profound influence on my mindset and way of being.

Robin S. Sharma

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

Bret Easton Ellis

My father was a small-businessman, and if he didn't get up and go to work, there would be no business.

Hillary Clinton

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

Dhani Harrison

Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.

Leon Askin

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

Anthony Edwards

The Father's plan is designed to provide direction for His children, to help them become happy, and to bring them safely home to Him with resurrected, exalted bodies.

David A. Bednar

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

Jean Paul

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.

Missy Elliott

It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.

Paul Mellon

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

Maurice Sendak

Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.

Marc Davis

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.

Matt Dillon

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

Mo Rocca

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

Charley Pride