Best towns & father Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions.”

Action Father Opportunity Taken Heard Victory Importance Towns Performing Companion Rejoice Signals Anticipate Philip

Book:The life of Alexander the Great

Source: The life of Alexander the Great

“The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.”

Children Eye Father White Crime Towns Southern Associates

Author:Lee De Forest

“John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.”

World War Helping Home Young Father Known Garden Towns War Of The Worlds Injury World War I Deaf Deafness

Author:Bill Dedman

“Like the Roman town grid, the New York plan was laid down on largely empty land, a city designed in advance of being inhabited; if the Romans consulted the heavens for guidance in this effort, the city fathers of New York consulted the banks.”

Ifs Father Heaven Effort Cities Plans Land New York Empty Towns Guidance Grids

Author:Richard Sennett

“My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.”

People Mean Children Helping School Mother Father Voice Study Towns Financial Fantastic Dozen Opera Devoted Mum Helping People Scholarship Programmes Great Voice

Author:Salma Hayek

“My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy, I gypsied around with my siblings and my parents to, like, eight different towns, went to eight different schools. All those things were extremely formative, and I think that's what happens.”

Thinking Men Different Happens School Young Father Parent Boys Grew Grew Up Theater Towns Eight Young Man Sibling My Siblings Theater Family

Author:John Lithgow

“I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of feeling that aspiration, that yearning, get out of the small town, connect to a larger world, get yourself to New York, wanting to play the piano at every opportunity, bonding with people who were on a similar path, ending up in Provincetown, which was kind of nexus for nonconformity, and artistic dropout reality.”

“The secret of my success is my mother, who was from Dublin. All my relations are in Dublin or in the west, or as I found out, we went to Rostrevor in Northern Ireland to film and I got out, while they changed cars around, and this man said to me: "You know you have cousins in this town? And they're coming down to see you..." And so they did. I'm sorry we didn't go to a lot more places, so that I could find a lot more cousins. So, that was good. It's entirely because my father was also brought up in Dublin. So, that's my link.”

Knows Men Said Film Mother Found Father Secret Car Changed Relation Towns West Sorry Links Ireland I'm Sorry Cousin Dublin Northern Ireland Secret Of My Success

Author:Judi Dench

“I was born in the same town as Richard Burton, the actor, and I saw him, he used to come - he and his wife drove by in the car in my father's shop and Burton would come home from Hollywood and ask him for his autograph, and I thought, I want to be like him. And that's all I said to myself, I want to be like that. I want to get out of this environment of my own empty mind.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“I went back to a small town in Poland where my dad grew up. It was a very traumatic experience for me as a young man to know that my father's family were killed by Nazis, killed by Hitler. And that left, you know, if not intellectually, at least an emotional part of me which said, God, we have got to do everything we can to end this kind of horrific racism or anti-Semitism. And I have spent much of my life trying to fight that.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half.”

Wells Three Father Half Study Judging Towns Eight Tutor Our Town

Author:Shmuel Yosef Agnon

“My father used to describe how he'd love going, early in the morning, out on a location and waiting for the trucks to arrive and the circus to come to town. That's what it's like, every day, when you're making a film. It's the magic.”

Film Used Father Waiting Morning Magic Towns Location Truck Circus

Author:Barbara Broccoli

“My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany.”

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Author:Blake Bailey

“Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left when I was an infant and I was left in the care of my mother and my grandparents.”

Care Mother Father Left Childhood Grew Grew Up Towns Solitary Grandparent Small Town Infant County

Author:Pierce Brosnan

“Barack Obama, you know has a lot of supporters here in America, but he's very popular internationally. It's quite interesting. This is a true story. It was in the paper. Barack Obama is so popular in the African town where his father was born, they've named a beer after him. That's true. Yeah. So next time you're in Africa, sit back, relax, and enjoy a tall, cold Barackelob Light. Good enough. Clearly not as popular a beer as it used to be.”

Knows Enough Stories Light America Used Next Father Enjoy Born Interesting Cold Paper Towns Yeah Used To Be Barack Beer Relax Good Enough Tall Next Time Supporter True Story Very Popular

Author:Conan O'Brien

“I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He's an interior designer and he's really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton.”

Firsts Littles Shows Father Towns Driving Designer Sunday Interiors Antiques Hamilton Little Towns Interior Designer

Author:Kathleen Robertson

“My father got a job at Bradford University in textiles. And he came for - I guess, you know, why do people immigrate? - like, for a better life to find, you know, a new world. And, you know, I think he always - he saw it as an opportunity. And so yeah so we came to this coal mining town in the north of England and that's where I grew up.”

People Thinking Knows World Jobs Father Opportunity Saws Grew Grew Up England Towns Yeah University New World Coal Better Life Mining Textiles Coal Mining Bradford

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“I had a big family - two older sisters and a younger brother. My family was like moving around a lot so I lived in a lot of small towns. My father was very restless.”

Two Bigs Moving Father Brother My Family Towns Small Town Restless Big Families Older Sister Younger Brother

Author:Jessica Lange

“When I was growing up in rural Alabama, as a young child, about 50 miles from Montgomery, and we would visit the little town of Troy, or visit Montgomery or Tuskegee, I would see the signs that said, "WHITE MEN - COLORED MEN," "WHITE WOMEN - COLORED WOMEN."And I would come home and say to my mother and father and my grandparents, "Why?" "Why this?" "Why that?" And they would just tell me, "That's just the way it is! Don't get in the way. Don't cause trouble."”

“My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American.”

Mother Father Towns African American Texas Small Town Nigeria

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“The book[ The Thorn and The Blossom] is a love story about two people, Brendan and Evelyn, who meet in a small town in Cornwall where Evelyn has gone on vacation and Brendan is working in his father's bookstore. The story is told from both perspectives, Brendan's and Evelyn's.”

People Two Book Stories Father Gone Perspective Towns Love Story Vacation Small Town Bookstores Cornwall

Author:Theodora Goss

“The Tiger Rising is, again, about a motherless child. His name is Rob Horton. He is dealing with the death of his mother, when he and his father move to a new town. And two things happen the same day that Rob gets sent home. One is he meets a girl named Sistine Bailey, who is what my mother would call "a piece of work," and he finds a real tiger in a cage in the woods behind the motel where he lives with his dad. And that's the story: what happens with the Sistine tiger, the real tiger and Rob's grief.”

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Author:Kate DiCamillo

“I was writing - at least beginning to write Boston Boy and there were a lot of holes in my so-called research. I didn't know the towns my mother and father came from in Russia. I didn't know the name of the clothing store I went to work for when I was 11 years old. I didn't know a lot of things. So I called for my FBI files, not expecting to have that stuff there, but I wanted to know what they had on me.But they did have the towns my mother and father lived in in Russia. They had the grocery store I worked in when I was 11 years old.”

Knows Writing Years Wanted Mother Father Names Stuff Boys Research Towns Stores Russia Holes Clothings Expecting Boston Files Fbi Groceries Mother And Father Grocery Stores

Author:Nat Hentoff

“[Margaret Thatcher] scorned and despised other women, and predicated her values entirely on the values of her father, a small town shopkeeper.”

Values Father Towns Small Town Despised Scorned Shopkeepers

Author:Hilary Mantel

“There was this judgmental sense of what was good and what was bad in my father's words. You couldn't necessarily shut the people out who were not considered good. But on the other hand, as children we were told, you don't do those things, which means that you don't really mix with that crowd as much. You don't go to town on Saturday night and hang out and go to the beer parlors. Even though it was a dry county, there was plenty of moonshine and beer and liquor being brought in from other counties.”

People Mean Children Hands Night Father Towns Crowds Plenty Beer Dry Hanging Out Saturday County Liquor Judgmental Saturday Night Parlor Moonshine

Author:David C. Driskell

“There was a young man in our community who said he wanted to be a minister, and my father was trying to mentor him in the ministry, and something supposedly happened in town.And this young man was jailed. I remember my father lamenting and saying, well, regardless of what happened, he's human; he's human like the rest of us and he deserves, to be heard and to be seen.”

Men Trying Humans Wells Said Wanted Remember Young Father Community Happened Heard Deserve Towns Ministers Young Man Mentor Ministry Our Community

Author:David C. Driskell

“In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.”

Years Wanted Night Father Television My Friends Towns Cameras Productions Studios Teens Editing Edits

Author:Joel Osteen

“I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.”

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Author:Margaret Thatcher

“The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.”

Ifs Thinking Form Father Relation Towns Stranger Spaghetti Nannies Virginians

Author:Emma Thompson

“The day after his father left, Franz and his mother went into town together, and as they left home Franz noticed that her shoes did not match. He was in a quandary: he wanted to point out the mistake, but was afraid he would hurt her. So, during the two hours they spent walking through the city together he kept his eyes focused on her feet. It was then he had his first inkling of what it means to suffer.”

Firsts Mean Two Home Eye Wanted Together Mother Suffering Father Left Hours Hurt Cities Mistake Feet Walking Towns Shoes Focused His Eyes

Author:Milan Kundera

“Ooh, big day in town for our park warden,” I said. “They’re even making you wear the uniform. Hayley’s mom will be happy. She thinks you look hot in it.” Dad turned as red as his hair. Mom’s laugh floated out from her studio. “Maya Delaney. Leave your father alone.”

Thinking Looks Said Bigs Father Laughing Hair Mom Dad Red Towns Hot Studios Parks Uniforms Wardens

Book:Darkness Rising: Complete Trilogy Collection: The Gathering, The Calling, The Rising

Source: Darkness Rising: Complete Trilogy Collection: The Gathering, The Calling, The Rising

“Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature.”

Art Father House Given Common Boys Virtue Grace Survival Towns Brown Goods Overwhelming Laziness Rats Our Father Moths Sparrows Zest Coyotes Mack

Book:Novels, 1942-1952

Source: Novels, 1942-1952

“His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs”

Ifs Made Father Half Towns Sticks Paint Jonah Jonah Griggs

Author:Melina Marchetta

“Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making hay, And whistling down the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill, While mother from the kitchen door is calling with a will, "Polly!-Polly!- The cows are in the corn! Oh, where's Polly?"”

Men Mind Mother Father Boys Gone Doors He Man Calling Summer Towns Kitchen Cows Hollow Corn July Mills Robins Jamie Hay Whistling

Book:Lyrics

Source: Lyrics

“High School: Oh, man. This is where boys and girls go from tweens to teens and become complicated and cruel. Girls play sick mind games; boys try to pull each other's penises off and throw them in the bushes. If you can, buy the most expensive jeans in a two-hundred-mile radius of your town and wear them on your first day. If anyone asks how you could afford them say that your father is the president of Ashton Kutcher. When they are like, 'Ashton Kutcher has a president?' answer, 'Yes.' Everyone will be in awe of you and you won't have to go through a lot of pain and cat fights.”

“My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.”

Years Three Father Happened Towns Ill California Three Years Small Town Bankers

Author:Warren Christopher

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