Quotes of: Founding-fathers Keyword

If I was a father, and my son told me he wanted to go out and be a publisher, I'd say, 'Go get a job.'

Richard Chizmar

The reality is that my stepfather was like a father to me and watching him die from a sudden heart attack was one of the hardest things I have ever gone through.

Roger Clemens

My own father used to boast to me of biting off a man's ear in a street fight.

Richard Elman

My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.

Richard Flanagan

I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.

Robert Jarvik

I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.

Seamus Heaney

My father was judgmental and kind of mean, and I'm like that. And he was very perfectionistic, and I'm like that. And he was very hard on himself, and I'm like that.

Susanna Kaysen

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

Steve Largent

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

Susan Lucci

People who say we are just preaching "extreme grace" must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is.

D.R. Silva

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

Sebastian Pinera

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

Sidney Poitier

I got my very last tattoo after my father died. I'm not getting anymore; otherwise I'll end up like Mike Tyson with a tattoo on my face.

Seann William Scott

My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.'

Stark Sands

My father was very bright. My mother had enormous drive. Put that together, and that's my gene pool.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

I gotta say, as the father of two beautiful young daughters, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Steve Schirripa

My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army.

Stuart Symington

Keep one thing in your mind; your school & friends can never teach you properly ,"how to be a good husband & father.

Srinivas Shenoy

Most every young man either takes inspiration from his father or wishes he could. I was fortunate in that I could.

Sheldon Whitehouse

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

Tori Amos

So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.

Tori Amos