Quotes of: Founding-fathers Keyword

My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.

Mitch Albom

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

Margaret Atwood

I think I am probably a lot like my father.

Marlene Dumas

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

Missy Elliott

I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.

Marianne Faithfull

I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.

Mika

My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union.

Michael Leunig

You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.

Madeleine L'Engle

Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind. Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen".

Richard Nance

My father was not a bully. I almost never heard him raise his voice to anybody.

Ron Reagan

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

Samantha Bond

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Mark Twain

Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.

Nolan Bushnell

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

Edwin Moses

My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system.

Winona Ryder

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

Harvey Keitel

I grew up in Southern Oregon. My father was a sawmill worker and a logger, and his job put food on the table.

Jeff Merkley

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

Mary Antin

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.

Billy Graham

My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family members are firefighters.

Brad Paisley