Quotes of: Founding-fathers Keyword

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

Benjamin Spock

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

George Best

My career did start in the Spanish language industry, and that's probably because my father is my manager. He pushed my career in the direction he knew best.

Jencarlos Canela

The best gift I could give my father would be to represent India in the Olympics. If I can do that in 2016, and even win a medal, it will be fantastic.

Jeev Milkha Singh

For the spouse of someone in the service, you are your own provider, your own lover, you own best friend while that person's gone - the mother and father if you have kids.

Jessy Schram

Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.

Martin Amis

I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had.

Prince

I went to football training when I was five because I think my father thought he had two boys.

Jodie Whittaker

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

Poppy Z. Brite

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

Paula Danziger

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

Patti Smith

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

Paul Tsongas

All things acceptable to God the Father must come from God the Son, whether us or our works.

paul viggiono

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

Robert Byrd

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

Roy Blount, Jr.

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

Richard Ernst

My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she became a stay-at-home mother.

Siobhan Fallon Hogan

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

Sidney Poitier

I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods.

Tina Ambani

My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.

Tori Amos

I spent my earliest years in Colwyn Bay in north Wales with my mother and grandmother, while my father was stationed with the RAF in India.

Terry Jones