I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years old that I was able to breathe a little and realize all that my father had done.


Ramon Magsaysay

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat...
JOAN LINGARD
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m...
DONALD TRUMP
No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.
CARLOS SLIM
My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or fo...
VALENTINO ROSSI
Jeremy was actually with the Cleveland Browns when I was there. His father was a defensive coach, Ji...
VINNY TESTAVERDE
My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
DOLORES HUERTA
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband...
ORLANDO BLOOM
When I was 6 years old, I had a little fur coat, but that was it. That's the only time I've ever had...
CHRISTINA APPLEGATE
My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson...
KARA SWISHER
My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a go...
MAX VON SYDOW
I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go t...
ALAN J. HEEGER
When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't ...
HENRIKH MKHITARYAN
The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer ...
PELE
My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parent...
BEVERLY SILLS
My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a li...
MICHAEL HANEKE
I was an only child for 15 years and then this lovely present, Fred, came along. It was great - it m...
EMILIA FOX
My father had slowed down playing a little... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put...
DAVID EDWARDS
My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six y...
DARA KHOSROWSHAHI
I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunit...
TODD ENGLISH
My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirel...
ERIKA SLEZAK
I had a Jewish grandfather. We managed to hide this fact from the authorities by falsifying document...
HELMUT SCHMIDT
I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had ...
IRA LEVIN
My father (Riles Johnson) was active in politics, and brought me into it when I was 8 years old,
JACK JOHNSON
My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a har...
DOLPH LUNDGREN
I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated...
NATALIA VODIANOVA
My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, h...
GREGG ALLMAN
Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules...
TOBY YOUNG
I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime.
VONDA SHEPARD
My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.
HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS
I started boxing when I was 5 years old because my father was a boxer. He taught me how to fight.
MANNAA MANNAA
My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he ...
MARK BILLINGHAM
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B...
MARK TWAIN
My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intellig...
TERRY WOGAN
I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and lovin...
SAM SHEPPARD
I made a movie when I was 15 years old with all my friends. This is when IMDb was a little more lax ...
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA
I was only 24 years old when I won my first Olympia. To be that young and the world champion was a l...
LEE HANEY
I remember when I was young, I was watching TV, and my father came into the room, agitated, and told...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO
I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between peo...
HAMILTON JORDAN
My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS
My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
DONALD JOHANSON
Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
BILL GRIFFITH
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro...
MARK TWAIN
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro...
JOSH BILLINGS
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man ar...
MARK TWAIN
My fondest memory of Tupac is my father producing 'Toss It Up' for him when I was 7 years ol...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR.
My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
NATALIE GULBIS
That's four years of my life thinking I was the father of Ayainna ... and Amber made it very difficu...
ANTHONY FLORES
I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my fat...
MICHAEL STRAHAN
My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they h...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from ...
RAFE SPALL
My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat befor...
ERNESTO BERTARELLI
I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I wa...
RAM SHRIRAM
I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the neare...
IRENE ROSENFELD
My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask...
JOHN HUME
The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN
With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure t...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE
I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different p...
BRANDON LEE
I eventually made the reunion with my father that I'd used as a default daydream throughout my c...
MONA SIMPSON
When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I ...
LANA DEL REY
My relationship with my father was the most central relationship of my life from the time I was zero...
BRUCE PALTROW
My relationship with my father was the most central relationship of my life from the time I was zero...
GWYNETH PALTROW
I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, b...
VINCE CABLE
My father never signed another contract with Miller. But Miller had a return receipt that was suppos...
WILLIAM GAMBLER
My father's relationship with Pac was something I was proud of.
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR.
I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali...
NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN
My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared w...
ZIGGY MARLEY
When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with ...
TONY VISCONTI
I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much afte...
SAM HOUSTON
I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God. My father was ...
PATTI SMITH
I am Wrath. I had neither father nor mother: I leaped out of a lion's mouth when I was scarce half a...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
When my father passed away, he had his organs donated. In that painful moment, I was deeply comforte...
JOHN PEREZ
I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free....
CARLA BLEY
I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was plante...
ROWAN ATKINSON
My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.
GEORGE KENNEDY
I would do as I was told, but I had a growing resentment about what was happening. It damaged my rel...
GRAHAM COXON
My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father ca...
JHUMPA LAHIRI
I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years...
TIM BURTON
My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ...
FRED ARMISEN
My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground...
RONNIE DUNN
The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but th...
XAVIER DOLAN
My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.
TOOTS THIELEMANS
What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown...
RAHUL GANDHI
When I was 18, and when I entered my family business, I soon realised that it wasn't as easy as ...
BINOD CHAUDHARY
My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at ...
DAVID STEINBERG
I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.
AMBER HEARD
One time, two years ago, I took a draught of morphia, meaning to end my life. My mother found me bef...
SARAH WATERS
I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteac...
CHARLES KURALT
I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house. I remember like it was yesterday...
MAGIC JOHNSON
When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the worl...
JAMES ELLROY
That's difficult to say. I had quite a few experiences that were very emotional and important to me....
BILL BUCHANAN
My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures ...
CATHERINE TATE
I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did mo...
ROBERT H. GRUBBS
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many yea...
QUENTIN CRISP
I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companie...
MARTHA STEWART
Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive an...
ANTHONY KIEDIS
When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my moth...
MR. T
My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY
I was riding dirt bikes when I was a little kid. I got my first Harley Davidson when I was 17 years ...
DAVID LABRAVA
I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led...
ALEX HONNOLD

More Ramon Magsaysay

an order from outside.
RAMON MAGSAYSAY
First of all, wala naman nangyayari, tumatagal ng tumatagal, hanggang naghihirap na lang ang taongba...
RAMON MAGSAYSAY
100 percent certain that they're watching the situation all the time.
RAMON MAGSAYSAY
as the jueteng allegations are based on hearsay or presented by dubious characters who have either r...
RAMON MAGSAYSAY
I don't really know much about cars.
RAMON RODRIGUEZ
To be honest, a lot of ride-alongs are not that great. There might be one or two calls on the radio ...
RAMON RODRIGUEZ
I love 'I Love Lucy,' and I have the DVD set of 'I Love Lucy.'
RAMON RODRIGUEZ
My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
RAMON RODRIGUEZ
Westerns are cool, man. I'm big on Westerns. I just love the grittiness.
RAMON RODRIGUEZ
I interned for the Knicks for one year doing community relations, but I absolutely hated it. It was ...
RAMON RODRIGUEZ
I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a spo...
RAMON RODRIGUEZ
I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day....
RAMON RODRIGUEZ
You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.
RAMON RODRIGUEZ
I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
RAMON RODRIGUEZ
On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
RAMON RODRIGUEZ
I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surv...
RAMON RODRIGUEZ
Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
RAMON RODRIGUEZ
A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basket...
RAMON RODRIGUEZ
Growing up in New York City, my car culture is minimal. I rode on the train, the bus. I walked; I ro...
RAMON RODRIGUEZ
I like new challenges and new experiences.
RAMON RODRIGUEZ
The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, w...
RAMON RODRIGUEZ
Easter blessings
All life’s sacrifices like autumn leaves
awaken our senses
and pow...
RAMON RAVENSWOOD
Sentinels of trees
breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh
As their mighty arms reach to...
RAMON RAVENSWOOD
I'm not Mike Piazza,
RAMON CASTRO
I came here with no big outfit to ride for, but as usual, Steve is doing a very good job getting me ...
RAMON DOMINGUEZ
As early as now there are already efforts to trim that down. We can address that 2008 requirement sa...
RAMON OPULENCIA
If I teach the guys to play the game right and they go out and do what we teach them, the winning is...
RAMON AVILES
The only reason we played extra innings is that we gave them too many outs in the seventh and eighth...
RAMON AVILES
It was a tough play for him. It was dark out there.
RAMON AVILES
That wasn't a home run.
RAMON AVILES
Now it's a lot better because the new ballparks, they've got batting cages next to the dugout. We di...
RAMON AVILES
We're looking at $ 300 million. That's our target.
RAMON ANG
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
RAMON ANG
In the Philippines, Coke is having problems. Coca-Cola is charging a 21 percent premium and the low ...
RAMON ANG
San Miguel is looking at many, many opportunities offered to us. Our intention is to still go on and...
RAMON ANG
Our beer and food businesses grew in 2005 as a result of effective brand building and strong innovat...
RAMON ANG
Combining National Foods and Berri provides San Miguel strong leadership positions in the dairy and ...
RAMON ANG
It was a very political conversation. He can influence actions, he can set a tone, but he won't. Jus...
RAMON ALEXANDER
A lot of people say what should be done at FAMU in the future. If they have the time to come to this...
RAMON ALEXANDER
It's a positive sign that the governor has come forward publicly to look into this issue.
RAMON ALEXANDER
Our students are simply being priced out of an education. We do feel that with the surpluses in the ...
RAMON ALEXANDER
People are arrested for nonviolent crimes every day, you had a boy get killed on television and nobo...
RAMON ALEXANDER
We still stand here today having great concern about the lack of commitment, dedication, and focus t...
RAMON ALEXANDER
It's not money, man. It's just determination and aspirations.
RAMON TAYLOR
I heard the court was going to be created and there's no incumbent and I wanted to spread the word a...
ISRAEL RAMON
I cheered them on. I did feel a little detached, but they made me feel like I was a part of it.
RAMON PETTUS
I have many doubts we can reach a joint diplomatic platform, but I think we need to try.
HAIM RAMON
The only stupid question is the question that is never asked.
RAMON BAUTISTA
We had some National Guardsmen here, but they were unarmed.
PHIL RAMON
Rudy has a great slider and changeup to go with that fastball, ... He did a great job pitching to Bo...
RAMON HERNANDEZ
He's one of the greatest ever. It's not my fault he played great points.
RAMON DELGADO
TANDAAN:daig ng malandi ang mabait.
RAMON BAUTISTA
Vendors with a global footprint still lead the worldwide market, but more and more, vendors with a m...
RAMON LLAMAS
Everybody wants to go farther in the (NCAA) tournament.
RONALD RAMON
I am that I am
a Goddess, a God
entitled to the deepest and most beautiful sensations
RAMON RAVENSWOOD
Once again he is shunning parliament and is failing to report to the public and publicly elected off...
HAIM RAMON
I wasn't complying with his commands, but then again, that doesn't justify for them beating on me be...
RAMON HERNANDEZ
It was agreed that first of all we will discuss on the agenda security, and then we will discuss nor...
CHAIM RAMON
It will be impossible to continue the peace process if terrorist acts will happen.
CHAIM RAMON
I'm not familiar with the ordinance off the top of my head.
PHIL RAMON
I think [Olivo] did an outstanding job, ... He came to this team and they needed a bat. ... I think ...
RAMON HERNANDEZ
He has to form a wide coalition because he has very tough decisions ahead of him on all subjects.
HAIM RAMON
there must be a party in the center which reflects the views of the majority of Israelis.
HAIM RAMON
exactly how things are and ... what the situation is.
HAIM RAMON
He is not going to negotiate. The negotiation is over. The opposing points are very clear. We are wa...
HAIM RAMON
Certainly, if the Palestinians pick up the phone.
HAIM RAMON
I am sorry that the Palestinians are always creating a crisis when Secretary Albright visits the are...
HAIM RAMON
We need to go to a summit like Camp David in which the sides will have to make tough, courageous dec...
HAIM RAMON
the central error was that we used weaponry that anyone involved in the decision-making process shou...
HAIM RAMON
If I get it, I could start serving then. If I don't get it, I'll be running. It's not unprecedented ...
ISRAEL RAMON
I think it's a great start. It's an opening for great science from our nation and hopefully for our ...
ILAN RAMON
Oracle of Delphi Speaks:
In my deep mystery I breathe
your fragrance swirling in
your...
RAMON RAVENSWOOD
Some of them will need some major (repair).
PHIL RAMON
We've formed a coalition of 27 Bay Area organizations and community groups. The message to other act...
RAMON CARDONA
You gotta play matches even though you're Agassi.
RAMON DELGADO
I know him, ... He throws a fastball away and then he comes in with a slider. I was ready for a slid...
RAMON CASTRO
This is the biggest cast we've ever had, so we do have high expectations.
RAMON ESCOBAR
It makes me proud (of) all the work I did to come back sooner. I've been out three months. ... But I...
RAMON HERNANDEZ
(Snowflake) hit the ball really well. They were able to put the ball in play, and we threw a couple ...
RAMON MORALES
RIM, as a phone with email push capabilities on top of scheduling and other functions, is a very att...
RAMON LLAMAS
From what I've seen, I think this kid could be pitching in September in the big leagues. He's that t...
RAMON WEBSTER
They just live here, do the work and go home.
RAMON SOLIS
The Republican Party has touched a nerve in the fabric, in the psychology, of the Latino people. The...
RAMON RAMIREZ
Love, you are eternal like springtime.
JUAN RAMON JIMINEZ
It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.
JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
JUAN RAMON JIMINEZ
We're treating this case as a homicide.
CAPT. RAMON VELA
It was the best gelatin and the best broth I've ever eaten.
RAMON SAUL SANCHEZ
The reason they were 16 stories up is because that height is suppose to be a deterrent. If you get o...
WARDEN RAMON RUSTIN
We didn't want to set a precedent where an acquittal is grounds for an automatic reinstatement.
WARDEN RAMON RUSTIN
We were kind of being cautious. We didn't want anything to interfere with the process. It's a little...
WARDEN RAMON RUSTIN
They [PSG troops] left for Crow valley for test firing training at 4 a.m. yesterday [Tuesday]. They ...
CAPTAIN RAMON ZAGALA
This is an authorized troop movement. There is no reason to fear.
CAPTAIN RAMON ZAGALA
Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.
JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ
I have a feeling that my boat has struck, down there in the depths, against a great thing. And nothi...
JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ
When the female resident arrived home, she found the male on the living room floor.
CAPT. RAMON VELA
You see death is a tool to degrade and destroy people, I see it as a life lesson that I use to empow...
ANGEL RAMON MEDINA
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ
These rains could overflow rivers and provoke flooding and even mudslides.
JOSE RAMON SALINAS
We continue to be on red alert We are still awaiting the assessment of our commanders.
CAPTAIN RAMON ZAGALA
I'm very pleased because that whole issue has been a gray area for a number of years.
WARDEN RAMON RUSTIN
Effective today, all checkpoints at entry points towards NCR will be pulled out due to the improved ...
CAPTAIN RAMON ZAGALA
We are not taking any chances. We will not leave any stone unturned. We're doing this also for their...
CAPTAIN RAMON ZAGALA
We're not in the position to make a comment because it is too early in the investigation.
CAPT. RAMON VELA
We believe the baseball bat is the murder weapon.
CAPT. RAMON VELA
It was a very destructive tumor. It's typically treated much earlier in this country, but he just di...
DR. RAMON RUIZ
But, the surgery went very well.
DR. RAMON RUIZ
It affected the area of his right socket and brain.
DR. RAMON RUIZ
He's in the intensive care unit now, where he will stay overnight.
DR. RAMON RUIZ
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ
Christianity is more than just a belief; it is a life of discipline, a firm determination to live a ...
RAMON M. TORRES
We are sending food to areas that could become cut off and we are moving heavy machinery to repair r...
JOSE RAMON SALINAS
Wilma is the biggest threat for Honduras in this hurricane season.
JOSE RAMON SALINAS
This is just the beginning of many other opportunities to come.
MAYOR RODRIGO RAMON
We're going to cover the killings, but not highlight them on the front page. We're in the middle of ...
RAMON CANTU DEANDAR
I have no idea how much it's going to cost, but it's getting done.
WARDEN RAMON RUSTIN
There is a tendency today for some of our political leaders to blame their staff and civil servants....
TAN SRI RAMON NAVARATNAM
A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.
RAMON GOMEZ DE LA SERNA
Something that has not been said about the moon? That it gives manicures to women sleepwalkers.
RAMON GOMEZ DE LA SERNA