David Pocock Quotes

My parents were always clear with my brothers and I when we were growing up that you have to have the courage of your convictions and that when you commit to something you must fully commit.

David Pocock

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• My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Mother
  • Singing
  • Brother

• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Brother

• You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Courage
  • Sins

• 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.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Man
  • Brother
  • Story

• The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Think
  • You
  • Parent

• You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • You
  • Friend
  • Parent

• I am very strongly paternal. My paternal instincts need to be acted upon. My love needs a release. I love everyone. I don't express my love enough, but the love within me needs a platform as a parent.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Needs
  • Parent
  • Instincts

• To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Evil
  • Brother
  • Sister

• 'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No, it's not happening.'

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Brother
  • Sex
  • Season

• Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

  

  Quintilian
  • Ambition
  • Parent
  • Often

• When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Girl
  • Wish
  • Boy

• I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Child
  • Understand
  • Parent

• I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Time
  • Children
  • Kids

• When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly stripped pine mingling with incense.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Mother
  • Childhood
  • Parent

• I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Me
  • Brother
  • Sister

• The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • World
  • Great
  • Together

• Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages,That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone!If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him,His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Brother
  • Sad

• I remember my brother came home with a bass and played a blues solo on it. I just went insane for days afterwards learning that.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Home
  • Remember
  • Learning

• I've had a life where things have worked out for me beyond my wildest dreams, and my brother's had just the opposite.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Life
  • Brother

• I used to get off the bus, and there'd be a crowd around, you know, and I was thinking, 'God, I hope this is not for me.' And it normally was, and it was because someone said something to my sister, and the first she says is, 'Well, I'll get my brother.'

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • God
  • Thinking
  • She

• One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Important
  • Teacher
  • Parent

• I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

  

  Jon Glaser
  • Fun
  • Reality

• I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Green
  • Spring
  • Snow

• My parents were always clear with my brothers and I when we were growing up that you have to have the courage of your convictions and that when you commit to something you must fully commit.

  

  David Pocock
  • Brother
  • Parent
  • Clear