Quotes of: Founding-fathers Keyword

'Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry.

Jamie Cullum

Children are nature’s flower and our future. They are the future fathers and mothers. They are our mind’s adventure in the future.

Debasish Mridha

My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.

Ernesto Bertarelli

Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.

Britt Ekland

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.

Bill Griffith

One of the things my father taught me was you should not exclude those who are opposed to your ideas.

Benigno Aquino III

When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.

Bertrand Piccard

My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.

Bill Paxton

On the Internet, on IMDB, they've got that my middle name as Archibald. I don't have a middle name! My father doesn't like middle names.

Bill Paxton

My mother and father instilled in me a sense of purpose not defined by today's street obsession with bling, cars or cribs.

Brian J. White

I'm a father and I'm a husband and I care about what's happening on our streets.

Gabriel E. Gomez

My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.

George Kennedy

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

Gustav Stresemann

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.

George Weinberg

My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.

Helena Bonham Carter

My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.

Henry Louis Gates

My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me.

Hill Harper

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

Hugh Leonard

There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.

Joni Eareckson Tada

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

Desi Arnaz

My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.'

Dave Chappelle