Quotes of: Founding-fathers Keyword

An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.

Philip Warren Anderson

I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.

Peter Berg

When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.

Peter Fonda

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.

Peter Jackson

I wish my father had lived longer. He died when I was 18.

Rory Bremner

My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.

Richard Diebenkorn

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Robert Frost

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

S. E. Hinton

As awkward as it sounds. I'm not Shane Larkin, Barry Larkin's son, anymore. It's Barry Larkin, the father of Shane Larkin.

Shane Larkin

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

Steve Nash

As a father of four, I want our children to enjoy the freedoms and opportunities that are the fruit of progressive values.

Stephen Pagliuca

My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.

Suzan-Lori Parks

My parents divorced when I was 10, but when my father was there, he was trying to create almost like a little prison for me.

Sarah Shahi

My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.

Steven Spielberg

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.

Tim Allen

I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.

Tom Cruise

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

Tom Jones

I was born and raised in L.A. My father was born and raised in L.A. So we're old hands here.

Tim Matheson

I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then.

Kiefer Sutherland

Go for Dr. Bowen as soon as you can. I think father is hurt.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

Lincoln Steffens