The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that…

The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of our ancestors would have imagined settling way over here…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any…

— Rand Paul

There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families,…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“It never seems to occur to such "criminals" that to behave with decency to another human being might also be "gratuitous.”

— Saul Bellow

“When Lee has a certain look on his face, eyes kind of amused, mouth small and tight, he finds himself thinking of his father.…

— Don DeLillo

What's Shobhaa De's problem with me and my son? What does she mean by saying, 'Like father, like son?' Let the truth come out.

— Aditya Pancholi

Even if I wasn't in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go 'You're just like Bob. You're…

— Ziggy Marley

I have always been like this. I take after my father. I'm just chill.

— Calvin Johnson

You must have had such a great childhood with a man like that for your father. (Delphine) Yeah. All puppy dogs and rainbows and…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I am a Jedi, like my father before me.

— Luke Skywalker

While I was growing up, I wasn't like, 'My father's a rapper, so I'm going to be one, too.'

— Ice Spice

It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's…

— Gilda Radner

Our son Gautam is very shy, just like his father.

— Namrata Shirodkar

“William didn't look like he'd be difficult about anything - he was thin and sandy-haired and already wore eyeglasses like his father. Most of…

— Patricia C. Wrede