Father Quote by Henry Louis Gates Download Open image “My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.” — Henry Louis Gates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Father He Like Look Looks Made Man Men Mets Parenting Redd Foxx Undertaker
My dad is the funniest human being I've ever met in my life - for years, I'd watch him hold court in whatever situation… — Greg Davies Copy Share Image
My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher -… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I love my dad. He used to be a professional wrestler in Mexico. So it was cool growing up with him, because when he… — Felipe Esparza Copy Share Image
Dad made me laugh a lot. He was a real comedian. He had a real sarcastic sense of humour, he could really make a… — Julian Lennon Copy Share Image
When I was very first getting into wrestling, the Undertaker was my favorite. — Kane Copy Share Image
I knew the Undertaker from day one when he was with WCW, 'til he moved to the WWF. I used to sit there with… — Arn Anderson Copy Share Image
My father is sort of the jokester. My dad is still the funniest guy in our family. — Seth Meyers Copy Share Image
My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman. — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black? — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I think that the implication of King's assassination has not been fully appreciated. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been… — John Denver Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast.… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
I guess, it's a father's dream for his daughter to be known around the world. — Liza Soberano Copy Share Image
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
“I don’t know. We all have to bear things, Ari. All of us. Your father has to bear the war and what it did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This was, I sometimes thought, the last gift my father gave me. And the best: His death stood out as the supreme-o excuse for… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
