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GARY F EVANS... My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
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IMELDA MARCOS My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till ...
BOB HOPE What do you want me to do? Let those sons of bitches stand up there and think on my time.
GROVER ALEXANDER I compare notes with my two sons, who are in their mid 20s. That keeps me abreast of the latest thin...
GARY HAILEY My father told me, never have partners.
HOWARD HUGHES I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. ...
BARRY ZITO I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I neve...
PHIL HARTMAN My father always told me not to dream, but my dreams created my path to success.
KISHAN S CHAUHAN I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told...
JAMES CAAN They are a bunch of coocoo lunatic sons of bitches surrealists.
FRIDA KAHLO In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris,...
KAREN HUGHES My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe...
JOHNNY CASH You were gullible," he said. And then, "When you were really little, you hated carrots. You wouldn't...
JENNY HAN Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time...
, ALWAYS NOW, 1997 My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe...
JOHNNY CASH I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mu...
NATASHA RICHARDSON Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?
DANIEL DALY My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.".
JIM FOX My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
JIM FOX My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
JIM FOX Father and Ivy used to go off on their excursions, never knowing that I was relieved when they were ...
SUZANNE PALMIERI I'm disappointed, but there were a lot of positives. My attitude was good. I never quit and didn't l...
JUSTIN ROSE At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking bac...
DWYANE WADE Now this state [that] gave us John Adams and John Kennedy has now given us John Kerry , a good man, ...
BILL CLINTON To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I.
HARRY S TRUMAN The heroes of my childhood were Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy... but I was inspired by ...
MIKE PENCE My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.
CAM NEWTON A couple of years before he died, I kissed my father goodbye. He said, 'Son, you haven't kis...
TERRY WOGAN To guide, protect, and show unconditional love; the vows on which I give to my 3 sons Hayden Kennedy...
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt ve...
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG me and this girl at school were always trying to mess each others life up but i was tired of it and ...
DALLY SALAD My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your...
CAMILA ALVES Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, For I never saw true beauty till this night
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at e...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN To say how close John and dad were, I'd call him after meets - all the way up till the end. We discu...
BRIAN GRAY This kind of situation is something most people don't expect, ... I know I didn't expect it back whe...
DEL MCCOURY We've had some very famous people through Iowa who failed in the caucuses -- John Glenn, Ted Kennedy...
HUGH WINEBRENNER Abraham had eight sons--not one. All eight sons bring something to the table. Abraham loved all of h...
MICHAEL BEN ZEHABE I bought all the books, but I probably knew on the first day that law school wasn't for me. I di...
CHARLES SCHWAB I had moments with my father that were exquisite - the stories he told me about Cuchulain, the mytho...
FRANK MCCOURT I always liked Nat King Cole. I always wanted to go my own way, but I always favoured other singers ...
BILLY PAUL John Kennedy Toole is one of my favorite writers, but he's not someone who means a lot to the kids I...
ABRAM HIMELSTEIN My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never...
SAM RAIMI When I was a small boy, my father told me never to recommend a church or a woman to anyone. And I ha...
EDMUND G. LOVE Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspi...
BIRCH BAYH A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.
PADDY CONSIDINE My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He...
LYNETTE FROMME I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfat...
PETE SEEGER My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he becam...
IYANLA VANZANT One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
GEORGE HERBERT One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
GEORGE HERBERT One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father
GEORGE HERBERT I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comf...
GILLIAN FLYNN I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, an...
CAROLYN BYERS RUCH One by one, my sons were taken from me, ... Saddam took away my sons, he took away half of my heart.
HASSAN ALI My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and D...
JOHN BARRASSO I always thought it was a goat that kicked me over the fence. My mama told me the other day it was a...
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ARTHUR MILLER In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble mysel...
NIGEL HAMILTON My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.
DANNY AIELLO I don't know of any Sox fans other than my family. (Sons) John and Danny call me every night to make...
DAN SHERMAN My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn...
STEVIE WONDER It is personal connections and relationships. And if you look back to a Franklin Roosevelt, a John K...
DAVID GARROW I know my father believed and my mother believed in and supported the suffrage movement, and I remem...
ALICE PAUL My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now...
LARRY KING People always ask me, "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" Well, I don't have an alibi.
EMO PHILIPS My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churc...
MICKEY SPILLANE My father told me abuse is generational.
GLENN BECK All women are bitches except my mother - not trusting her but respecting her.
NIZAR GABANI I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy. I believe that.
JESSE VENTURA As a Scot and a Presbyterian, my father believed that man by nature was a mess and had fallen from a...
NORMAN MACLEAN When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the worl...
JAMES ELLROY Congressman John Murtha and Alberto Mora exemplify the kind of courage my father admired most. When ...
CAROLINE KENNEDY For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and ...
IYANLA VANZANT But it just makes me tired even thinking about it. It reminds me of that feeling I had before I left...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed...
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Bessette Kennedy and John F. Kenne...
FAMILY TREE People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grand...
ADRIANA TRIGIANI To have seen the country's and been the places i have been to i always took it for granted.Now i rea...
GARY F EVANS... I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.
DOMHNALL GLEESON My mother always told me to never limit my dreams to our economic situation. Therefore, I have alway...
STACEY HILL A really great album came out of it, but what it did was leave all these other tracks that I'd done ...
GLENN TIPTON Everybody has got to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?
WILLIAM SAROYAN I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for...
DAVID CASSIDY My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.
VICTORIA ABRIL The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father...
CAROLINE SCHLOSSBERG The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father...
CAROLINE KENNEDY SCHLOSSBERG LORD GORING:
My father told me to go to bed an hour ago. I don't see why I shouldn't give you ...
OSCAR WILDE For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was ba...
JENNIFER LYNCH But Magnus, he thought. You never told me. Never warned me it would be like this, that I would wake ...
CASSANDRA CLARE My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
JIM VALVANO The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but th...
XAVIER DOLAN Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it&#...
QUINCY JONES If you got to talking to most cowboys, they'd admit they write 'em. I think some of the meanest, tou...
ROSS KNOX My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
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JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincer...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of nationa...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be s...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do f...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Sometimes party loyalty asks too much
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY We choose to go...not because [it is] easy, but because [it is] hard, because that goal will serve t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's mine is m...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public lif...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent ... War will exist until that distant d...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom a...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their ch...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle....
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY I think "Hail to the Chief" has a nice ring to it.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sug...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have th...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignat...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disp...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be c...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, Dear Jack: Don't buy a sing...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Colum...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recogniti...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY According to the ancient Chinese proverb, "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single st...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance our budget...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of deeds, let us go forth ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY It was involuntary. They sank my boat.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY