#father

My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#fan #father #gave #journalist #me

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#beginning #communism #convent #converted #during

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#even #fatherland #havana #i #i do

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#first #five #i #longing #old

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. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#also #beginnings #came #eight #father

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#father #go #how #i #me

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#father #i #imagine #like #only

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#best #best way #character #color #explain

And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative. ↗

— Sharron Angle

#conservative #constitution #country #draw #fathers

My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#father #friends #her #i #miss