Pete Hamill Quotes

My father did shape me. He didn't drive because he had one leg, and for years I never drove. I had no mobility.

Pete Hamill

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• My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.

  

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• My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
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• When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
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• When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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• My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.

  

  Valentino Rossi
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• A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

  

  Barack Obama
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• I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • God
  • Mother

• I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • School
  • Father
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• The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for my mother, it was very difficult to get our bearings.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Work
  • Father
  • Simple

• I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Family
  • Father
  • Identity

• I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Know

• 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.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
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• I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• My father realizes that he did okay with me. He did the best he could.

  

  Sage Stallone
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• My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head of procurement for some of the biggest companies in the world as well as our very own treasury.

  

  Ian Watson
  • World
  • Father
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• My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • World
  • Music
  • American

• Around 17 to 20 years, I became, myself, a poacher. And I wanted to do it, because - I believed - to continue my studies. I wanted to go to university, but my father was poor, my uncle even. So, I did it. And for three to four years, I went to university. For three times, I applied to biomedical science, to be a doctor. I didn't succeed.

  

  Corneille Ewango
  • Father
  • Science
  • Uncle

• I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • History

• I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Real
  • Very
  • Implications

• One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • True

• My father did shape me. He didn't drive because he had one leg, and for years I never drove. I had no mobility.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • Father