539 quotes found
“While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom m...”
“I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's far...”
“I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was a...”
“My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.”
“I am really looking forward to driving another of my father's car at the show in Rotterdam.”
“He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.”
“I'm a car nut. My father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership.”
“Peace and not war is the father of all things.”
“When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, 'I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I'm busy cooking!'”
“My father was the superintendent of the churches in the state of Montana. He was content in his beliefs. He befit the term 'true Christian.' He would turn the other cheek. He was truly a man of peace.”
“My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.”
“My mother was a reader; my father was a reader. Not anything particularly sophisticated. My mother read fat historical or romantic novels; my father liked to read Westerns, Zane Grey, that kind of ...”
“We all know the personal relationship between Michel Platini and President Blatter. It was like a mentor and protege, or even father and son.”
“If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.”
“Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.”
“If Obama came by his liberalism in the faculty lounge, then sure, he can see it hasn't worked, and he can modify it. But if Obama got his formative ideas when he was very young, and if they are the...”
“Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?”
“A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if they've had a competitive relationship with their own father.”
“My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.”
“I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet...”
