Quotes of: Founding-fathers Keyword

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

Alice Meynell

I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.

A. J. Foyt

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

Catherine Helen Spence

My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'

Brad Pitt

There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always listened to my mother's advice. As a result, he was a better, wiser, and kinder man.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

Dilma Rousseff

Some men don't have the opportunity to be the type of father they need to be, and I hope my example teaches them to step up.

Marvin Sapp

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

Michael Beschloss

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

Pat Conroy

In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little wooden case stocked with tubes of paint, and, tucked into the spare-tire well, one of my father's old, tobacco-stained shirts, for a smock.

Jill Lepore

You don't want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child's future teacher or your dentist's father.

Kim Edwards

I am really looking forward to driving another of my father's car at the show in Rotterdam.

Nelson Piquet

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

Amy Sedaris

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

Dean Koontz

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

Hedy Lamarr

It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.

Hannah Storm

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

John Malkovich

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

Michael Leunig

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

Robert Bly

I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.

Ricky Martin