Craig Thompson Quotes

My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant.

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• A few weeks after my mom passed in November of 2013, I came back from an injury and entered the Egg Bowl in the second half against Ole Miss. I'll never forget the feeling when I walked back out on the field. As I walked into the Egg Bowl, the crowd stood up and clapped like they were enveloping me in a giant hug.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Mom

• It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Family
  • Today

• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Children
  • Together

• My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I'm not trying to lose weight.

  

  B. B. King
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  • Dad

• Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Girl
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• I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Work
  • Age
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• Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Home
  • You
  • Hat

• If the home is good, all will be good.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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  • Will

• My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.

  

  Tamron Hall
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  • Family
  • Dad

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Work
  • American
  • America

• I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous.

  

  Maika Monroe
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• One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

  

  Pam Brown
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• I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours.

  

  Danica Patrick
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• Yes, I love playing Mom.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
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• I can remember 1987 when I had my first amateur fight in Michigan, weighing 64lb. I was 10 years old. I was the youngest and smallest guy on my team. I can remember what I ate. There was this restaurant called Ponderosa, and my dad made me eat a steak. I was happy. It was a first round knockout. I slept with my trophy for two weeks.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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  • Guy

• Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.

  

  Owen Hart
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  • Just

• If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.

  

  Neal Boortz
  • People
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  • Home

• I'm really interested in the extraordinary found in the normal. Hopefully, my books don't take you to an entirely different place but make you look at things around you.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Different

• I've done very well in the film business. Whenever I have wanted something, the film business has given it to me. I'm very fortunate. My big problem in life has always been, 'What do I want?'

  

  John Patrick Shanley
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• It's one of these wonderful economic coincidences.

  

  Edward Higgins White
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• I'm an electrical engineer, and when I first started out, there was nobody who looked like me out there. I worked at Qualcomm, and I remember coming into meeting rooms, and I could never get the floor. I could never get my opinion across.

  

  Peggy Johnson
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  • Opinion

• My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant.

  

  Craig Thompson
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