Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III (Desi Arnaz) Quotes
I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
Quotes to Explore
-
My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.
-
I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.
-
I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.
Garry Kasparov -
When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
-
My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
-
Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
-
I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.
-
We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.
-
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
-
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
-
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
-
I am a daughter. My father is an example for me.
-
Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.
-
I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
-
I am truly multi-racial. I never knew my biological father. I've always had less information than I would have liked to have had. All I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures.
-
To pray is to have a conversation with Deity. This sacred and supernal communication with Heavenly Father is a divine and delicate process. This crucial communication should be conducted with great care and in compliance with sacred counsel.
-
I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.
-
My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.
-
It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.
-
I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character.
-
I'm not a big believer in the power of more regulation to fix things. I think it can almost be more dangerous because it provides the illusion that things have been fixed without the substance.
-
I hang out with the 'nerdy' people - they have a different sense of humor than most kids.
-
I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
