Quotes of: Founding-fathers Keyword

I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

Tamara Mellon

It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son.

Thomas S. Monson

Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.

Tatum O'Neal

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'

Ken Venturi

I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.

Louise Fletcher

I don't feel Swedish. In fact, my father tells me to get out of here as soon as I can.

Lykke Li

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Lewis Mumford

Engage in no pursuit in which you cannot look up unto God, and say, 'Bless me in this, my Father!

Legh Richmond

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.

Leverett Saltonstall

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

Lincoln Steffens

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

Madeleine Albright

My father used to say superior people never make long visits.

Marianne Moore

I'm no economist. I don't even play one on TV. I'm just a husband, a father, a taxpayer.

Mark McKinnon

I knew I wanted to be a father; I didn't know it was going to be this awesome or that my kid would come out so beautiful and lovely.

Mike Myers

Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids—not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us.

Rich Mullins

Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously.

Richard G. Scott

My father was Bolivian, which makes me half-Bolivian. It's where I got some of my exotic features and certainly my skin tone.

Raquel Welch

My mother says I was two and a half when I first mentioned I wanted to be an actor. My father said, 'The word is pronounced 'Doctor!'

Sanjeev Bhaskar

I am not a father who wants to give his kids everything. They have to earn it.

Mariano Rivera

I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.

Mickey Rourke

We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.

Mattie Stepanek