Quotes of: Founding-fathers Keyword

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

Yancy Butler

My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.

Michael De Luca

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

Patti Smith

My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.

Erika Slezak

My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long.

Michael Douglas

Archbishop Colloredo: [to Mozart's father] Your son is an unprincipled, spoiled, conceited brat!

Amadeus

As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child.

Anthony Browne

As fathers, we should have a desire to be active participants in our children’s lives.

Asa Don Brown

I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.

Albert Gubay

In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.

Alexandra Kerry

I know whatever my father did, in his own way, he still loved me.

Anthony Kiedis

You will get your father's wealth one day but not his legacy.

Amit Kalantri

Heroism of your father doesn't make you a hero, heroism of you doesn't make your son a hero.

Amit Kalantri

My father was interested in justice, always working for people who needed to be supported.

Andy Serkis

Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

Craig T. Nelson

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

Norma Shearer

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

Toots Thielemans

For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions.

Vladimir Potanin

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'

Will Rogers

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

Warren Zevon

My father is just getting better and better, and that speaks so well of the way he approaches the work.

Domhnall Gleeson