Quotes of: Founding-fathers Keyword

Your Kentuckian of the present day is a good illustration of the doctrine of transmitted instincts and peculiarities. His fathers were mighty hunters, - men who lived in the woods, and slept under the free, open heavens, with the stars to hold their ...

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Ironically for someone who had so long asserted his own individuality as his first and best defense against insults of any kind, I discovered that faith in myself proved to be the least formidable strength I possessed when confronting alone organized...

Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir

We all wear masks to veil the truth. Truth is nakedness. Truth is fear. Truth is the gardener making you sit on his lap asking you to light his cigarette. Truth is father— with a limp cigarette on his lips —telling you to never use his matches to...

Kamand Kojouri

I recall those beautiful summer mornings with my parents by the sandy beach of Belek. My father used to teach me how to ride waves. I remember him constantly emphasizing the fact that no wave, no matter how big it is should stir enough fear inside me...

Malak El Halabi

Shaniqua: [talking on the phone] Mr. Ryan, your father has been to the clinic three times in the last month. He's been treated for a urinary tract infection that is by no means an emergency. Now, if you have any more questions about your HMO plan, wh...

Crash

Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man. Mr. Parker: That son of a bitch would freeze up in the middle of summer on the equator! Mother: Little pitchers! Mr. Parker: Thanks... hold it! [t...

A Christmas Story

Walter 'Monk' McGinn: I've got forty-four notches on my club. Do you know what they're for? They're to remind me what I owe God when I die. My father was killed in battle, too. In Ireland, in the streets, fighting those who would take as their privil...

Gangs of New York

Rita: Now, Ms. Cossell, in all the time that you've known them, have you ever questioned Sam's ability as a father? Annie: Never. Rita: Never? Annie: Never. Look at Lucy. She's strong. She displays true empathy for people, all kinds of people. I know...

I Am Sam

Sarah Connor: [recording a tape for her future son] The hardest thing is deciding what I should tell you and what not to. But I guess I've got a while yet before you're old enough to even understand the tapes. They're more for me at this point just s...

The Terminator

Marty McFly: [referring to Alternate 1985 Biff] How could he be your husband? How could you leave dad for him? Old Lorraine: Leave dad? Marty, are you feeling all right? Marty McFly: [shouting] No! No I'm not feeling all right! I don't understand one...

Back to the Future Part II

My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring! My native country, thee, Land of the noble free, Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and...

Love

How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.

The Cookbook Collector

...I found my eyes repelled by hers as if they were the like poles of a pair of magnets.

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust

I’ve been searching a long time for something I think I lost. I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.

Champion

What I found, though, is that is you're not chasing one fantasy, you're chasing another.

Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a piece of luck not to be despised.

The Crossing

As far as I’m concerned, this is the worst thing that’s happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru.

City of Lost Souls

You no longer need other people in your life once you have found your true love.

City of Lost Souls

Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.

The Complete Works

You did say something I found offensive yesterday. What was that? I believe the word you used was friends.

Cursed be the Wicked

What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself.

Democracy in America Volume 1