“My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.” MenWritingCharacterMotherFatherParentNiceReaderGentleSupportiveColorfulNice Man Author:Alexander McCall Smith
“The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you did not own land, and that was basically you had to be a white man who owned land. Now how did they get that land? They basically had to steal it from someone, and that would be probably the Indians. And so most of the initial founding fathers were, while they may have had some really nice ideas about democracy, they had a lot of issues with people of color. They had a lot of issues with people who held things that they coveted.” PeopleIfsMenMayIdeasCountryFactsRealityWould BeFatherWhiteDemocracyIssuesNiceLandColorVoteStealingWhite ManFoundingInitialsReally NiceSpeculators Author:Winona LaDuke
“The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior.” MenYearsReligionFatherJesusChristChristianityNiceWifeSonJesus ChristDecidedCorruptionSettlingDivinitySaviorMurdererCouncilEmperorIndebtedEldestConstantineEldest SonEmperor Constantine Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.” IfsWantGivingYearsChildrenStillsTwoWarUsedMotherCertainThreeFatherNiceGrewGrew UpCapableDiedRaisedTwo YearsNice ThingsPeanutsPensionFather DiedTwo Year OldsMy Father DiedThriftyParsimony Author:Giulio Andreotti
“If you start paying attention to Tom Hanks, you realize that he's not the Jimmy Stewart of our age. He's a very nice man. Everyone that I know that knows him says he's a great father. But, let's not pretend that he's something that he's not. He's just like George Clooney. He's a very radical leftist.” IfsKnowsMenAgeFatherRealizingAttentionNiceRadicalPay AttentionTomsJimmyVery NiceLeftistsGreat FatherNice ManJimmy Stewart Author:Bill O'Reilly
“[After her 18-day disappearance in 1974:] I love my husband very, very much, but he didn't ask me when he ran for mayor and he didn't consult me about running for governor. It would be nice to be asked. ... You know, I've been my mother's daughter, my father's daughter, the wife of my husband, the mother of my six children, and grandmother to my eleven grandchildren, but I have never been me. But I am now because I went away. I am a changed woman.” KnowsChildrenWould BeRunningMotherAsksFatherNiceWifeChangedHusbandSixDaughterAsk MeRanGrandmotherMy HusbandGovernorsBeing NiceGrandchildrenElevenMayorsDisappearanceAssertivenessLove My HusbandI Love My Husband Author:Angela Alioto
“My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name.” KnowsFatherNamesChanceNiceGenerationsSonMy SonGrandfatherIconsOne Chance Author:Jennifer Grant
“My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that, fine." When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, "Fine, but study welding just in case."” IfsWantSaidActorsFatherParentCasesStudyNiceChildhoodFineReally NiceWelding Author:Robin Williams
“I've always thought it would be fun to update "Hansel and Gretel." I'd have these white parents in the suburbs with an income of fifty or sixty thousand dollars. Daddy loses his job, and the wicked stepmother says, "We could get along, we could keep our Mastercharge, if you'd just get rid of those shitty kids." Finally the father hires a limo and tells the driver, "Drop 'em off on Lenox Avenue in Harlem at two in the morning." These two little white kids land there. They're menaced. And this supposedly nice black lady says, "Would you like some candy?"” IfsLittlesTwoWould BeKidsJobsFatherFunParentBlackLosesWhiteMorningNiceLandThousandDollarsIncomeFiftyWickedEmsDriversSixtyCandyDaddyAvenuesSuburbsHarlemUpdatesStepmothersLimosHansel And GretelWicked Stepmothers Author:Stephen King