William Bradford Quotes
Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.
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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.
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My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.
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I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.
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For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My father had the most amazing operatic voice, so I have a soft spot for that.
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My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.
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Directors have good and bad movies. My father also made some flop movies, and he had bigger hits, too. That should not determine anything.
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This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.
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That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.
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A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.
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I love boxing, MMA, and hiking with my dog. I work out 3 times a week, and on my off days, I do yoga to keep my body relaxed and to stretch.
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Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.
