Nat Hentoff Quotes
Cardinal John O'Connor had my wife Margot and me over for drinks a couple of times. That was something I never could have envisioned back when I was a kid in Boston, that a cardinal and I would be, if not breaking bread, at least breaking Scotch.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.
-
There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
-
I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.
-
It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
-
I was a really big kid.
-
I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
-
I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.
-
I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
-
Gerard Butler is like a big kid; he's so nice.
-
When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.
-
I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.
-
I love the Spider-Man story. I watched the cartoon on TV when I was a kid, and my brother wore his Spider-Man pyjamas everywhere.
-
There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
-
When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
-
I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.
-
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
-
Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.
-
I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.
-
My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I was a kid that worked with children's jingle singing groups. I used to sing jingles as a kid.
-
The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.
-
I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.
-
I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.
-
We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.
-
Cardinal John O'Connor had my wife Margot and me over for drinks a couple of times. That was something I never could have envisioned back when I was a kid in Boston, that a cardinal and I would be, if not breaking bread, at least breaking Scotch.
