#father

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#could #education #frugal #grandfather #grandmother

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#attitude #freedom #fulfilled #gave #grandfather

My father was a doctor, and I admired him and got along well with him. He took me with him on house calls. We were living in Flushing, which was then a sleepy village of 25,000 - before the subway got there. I've been sure I wanted to be a doctor since I was about 12. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#admired #along #been #before #calls

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#eat #father #givers #kinds #may

When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#benefit #came #end #even #father

My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house. ↗

— Immanuel Velikovsky

#among #arm #believe #carried #earliest

My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#couple #couple times #dizzy #does #drive

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that. ↗

— Alan Alda

#father #i #mother #must #she

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#alienation #did #father #great #his

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process. ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

#did #grandfather #had #independent #lab