Quotes of: Founding-fathers Keyword

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

Marilyn vos Savant

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

Maurice Sendak

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

Mavis Staples

I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.

Michael Trevino

There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.

Nick Carter

As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.

Denis McDonough

I see myself being a father, hopefully a husband, but I'm very gun-shy. The older I get, the further the goalpost.

Esai Morales

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

Dick Dale

I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

Pope Francis

As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.

Jose Andres Puerta

There were days when my father didn't have money for food, and we slept hoping the next day something could be got from work.

Sergio Aguero

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.

Franz Boas

My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

Malala Yousafzai

We actually have a small family. It's just my father and I and my grandmother, who lives in Tokyo. I cherish my friendships.

Apolo Ohno

Oh, my wife is a wonderful cook. She comes from a food-loving Italian family - her father owned a pizzeria!

Buddy Valastro

My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

Celia Imrie

My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.

Camille Paglia

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

Ice T

The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.

John Irving

For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend.

John Burnham Schwartz

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

John Wooden