Louis de Bernieres Quotes

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

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• About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Father

• My mom cooked for us, and on the weekend, we always had Sunday dinner. My father liked to bake.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Father
  • Mom
  • Sunday

• Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Soldier
  • Producer

• Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • People
  • Proud
  • Security

• In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Work
  • American
  • Military

• If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Money
  • You
  • Count

• Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • School
  • War
  • Career

• They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Military
  • Stupid
  • Intelligent

• My connections to Broward are long, and they are deep, and I'm proud of them.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Long
  • Proud
  • Deep

• 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
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Father

• As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
  • Father
  • Child
  • Architecture

• Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Friends
  • Military
  • September

• I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Trying
  • History
  • Pretty

• I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Up
  • Father

• I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Father

• There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Father
  • Man
  • Adventure

• Try and understand: cricket was played by Commonwealth countries only; now it has started in other countries as well, and I am proud of that.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Proud
  • Countries
  • Cricket

• If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Proud

• I remember going to London with my father in 1968 to see '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I just soaked in that movie. To me, that was real; it was going to happen.

  

  Brian Binnie
  • Real
  • Remember
  • Movie

• Mozart had extensive training from his father, who was widely considered the greatest living music teacher in all of Europe at the time.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Time
  • Music
  • Father

• My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

  

  Jennie Garth
  • Kids
  • Dad
  • Passion

• Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Knowledge

• The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

  

  Louis de Bernieres
  • Father
  • Proud
  • Military