William Bradford Quotes

Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

William Bradford

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• I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Mind
  • Feel
  • Ready

• My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Father
  • Example

• You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Father
  • Best
  • Husband

• I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Swimming

• 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
  • Life
  • School
  • Father

• We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Work
  • Art
  • Ocean

• Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Life
  • Family
  • Father

• I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Great
  • Music
  • Done

• I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Father
  • Years
  • Railroad

• I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Different
  • Family
  • Father

• Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Father
  • Reading

• My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

  

  Ice T
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Black

• 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

• The trials my father went through were things most young black males have to go through. There was nothing he shielded from me, because it doesn't matter how you grow up, those who oppress will oppress. It's all completely relatable; everyone feels NWA.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Up
  • Father
  • Black

• My father had the most amazing operatic voice, so I have a soft spot for that.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Father
  • Amazing
  • Voice

• My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Art
  • Father
  • Performance

• My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Home
  • Father
  • Party

• I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Father

• I think the love between a child and parent is wonderful. You know, Mei... I haven't seen my mother for over two years. I used to live with her... but now I live with my father. I used to be sad and wonder why it happened... but parents have a lot of things they have to deal with too. I saw how they were suffering... and I know they both love me a lot. You can't let loneliness harden your heart. Mei, you know... Misuzu loves you, don't you?

  

  Bisco Hatori
  • Father
  • Suffering
  • Wonder

• I always thought 'Into The Gloss' would be successful, but I didn't really know what my definition of success was.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Success

• YouTube is the vlogs and my life, then Instagram is comedy skits and pictures that I take. Twitter's text, and Instagram Stories is even more behind-the-scenes vlog stuff. I'm always posting.

  

  Jake Paul
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Text

• We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

  

  William Bradford
  • Father
  • Ocean
  • Ready