#father

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. ↗

— David Johansen

#irish #librarian #mother #new #new york

Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#fathers #former #further #now #over

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#decided #did #father #i #life

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#class #colonial #father #important #man

My father was the quintessential husband and dad. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#father #husband #quintessential

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery. ↗

— Colin Powell

#about #argued #congress #court #deal

I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had. ↗

— Prince

#could #did #father #had #handle

The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s. ↗

— Michael Rapaport

#city #disco #effect #enormous #exposed

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted. ↗

— Dan Rather

#being #father #gave #great #invisible

I never cooked at home - my father was the chef. ↗

— Rene Redzepi

#cooked #father #home #i #never