M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“My father was assassinated by an FBI-CIA connection”
“My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair”
“My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although he graduated at the top of his high school class, he had no money for college. And he was set to work in a factory but, at the last minute, a kind person in the Trenton area arranged for him to receive a $50 scholarship and that was enough in those days for him to pay the tuition at a local college and buy one used suit. And that made the difference between his working in a factory and going to college.”
“My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.”
“My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.”
“My father was convinced the Taliban would hunt him down and kill him, but he again refused security from the police. 'If you go around with a lot of security the Taliban will use Kalashnikovs or suicide bombers and more people will be killed,' he said. 'At least I'll be killed alone.'”
Source: I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
“My father was cursed," James said from the darkness. "Whereas I? I'm damned.”
Source: The Bane Chronicles
“My father was dead by the time I became a writer, and he would have had a heart attack if he had read the first thing I wrote when it came out. My mother still keeps her copy of Faggots hidden away in a bottom drawer.”
“My father was English. He date-raped my mother so she's hated English men ever since. You know my boyfriend's English, and I'm, uh, I'm half-English, which she's never been real happy about. If she finds out I'm dating someone English, she'll ah, think I' turning my back on her and becoming a foreigner.' Cathy, that's the stupidest reason I've ever heard.”
“My father was everything to me. Unlike my mother - I didn't have a special affinity with her.”
“My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting. When you're a young woman, I think you want to please a lot, so maybe you accept more of the criticism than you would as an older person. But criticism can be very wounding. It certainly was to me.”
“My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.”
“My father was from a secular Jewish family and my mother from a nominally Christian (Episcopalian) one. They were not religious as adults. They did, however, believe in educating their children about the Bible. They viewed this as an essential part of any education.”
“My father was from Aberdeen, and a more generous man you couldn't wish to meet. I have a gold watch that belonged to him. He sold it to me on his deathbed. I wrote him a cheque for it, post dated of course.”
“My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and watch TV with him.”
“My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.”
“My father was furious with me, absolutely furious. I'm sure he wouldn't have been so mad if I'd have volunteered to join the army. Anything but this. He couldn't believe it. I agree with him: It wasn't a viable career opportunity.”
“My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.”
“My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.”
“My father was, I suppose, a crank. He had a fine, precise mind which ignored what it was not interested in. Without being a misanthrope he was unsociable and non-conforming. He had his own unorthodox theories of education, one of which was that I should not be sent to school.”
Source: The go-between
“My father was in charge of managing the farm.”
“My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but we were well-off.”
“My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.”
“My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.”
“My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.”
“My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.”
“My father was in the kitchen putting a new washer in the kitchen faucet. He looked relieved to see Morelli standing in the hallway. He'd probably prefer I bring home someone useful, like a butcher or a car mechanic, but I guess cops are a step up from undertakers.”
Source: Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly
“My father was incredibly indecisive. As an example, take his wedding day. He couldn't decide where to sit in the getaway car, decide the fact he was supposed to be driving.”
Source: Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake
“My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.”
“My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18, that was an early equivalent of educational television. Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.”
“My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.”
“My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks. The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims. For some the most terrible aspect of it was the deportations, while for others it was the leveling bombings or the mass deaths by starvation and cold.”
“My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.”
“My father was like the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.”
“My father was married to mother 'til the day he died, for over 64 years. He's why I kept trying to get the marriage thing right. All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love.”
“My father was my god. His approval was so valuable to me.”
“My father was my greatest inspiration. He was a lunatic.”
“My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.”
“My father was my mother's home, the one place that she knew she could be safe. It was all a journey of faith for him, and I think he felt like if you don't find more love and understanding at the end of a journey like that, then you are lost - and if you only find hate and resentment, it will destroy you. I believe that.”
“My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.”
“My father was never anti-anything in our house.”
“My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids wont grow up to be connected to him.”
“My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.”
“My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you weren't home.”
Source: Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature
“My father was not a political animal.”
“My father was not able to get all the vinyl he used to listen to with me. He couldn't travel as he did it because of his profession as a diplomatic career.”
“My father was not always there,
yet he kept eagerly aware
of my rehearsals and my plays,
of struggles and my winning days.
My father often could not stay
to hear me sing or watch me play,
but it was his hard-working hands
that paid my dues for sports and band.
My father was not always near,
so he would call to lift and cheer.
He listened while I spoke my mind.
He gave advice both wise and kind.
And on those days when work was thru,
my father rushed straight home to view
my soccer game or concert show.
I treasured those days most, you know.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.”
Source: Frankenstein
“My father was often angry when I was most like him.”
“My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again.”
Source: Girl With a Pearl Earring