Pastoral Resources

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.

I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decisions. And your father, if he can help, probably, he helps just by being your father without getting intimately involved.

Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends.

He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled.

I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.

My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.

If they had killed by father and my mother and all my friends, yet if they had come to treat of peace, they ought to have gone in peace.

My father had very little formal education.