Father Quote by Rainer Weiss Download Open image “My father was a dictator in the true German sense. He suppressed my mother.” — Rainer Weiss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Father He Mother Parenting Sense True
My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
My father was not really a presence for me. He was away; he was in the German army. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
In between being born in Nazi Germany, and marriage to my dad - of which I think marriage to my dad might have been… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a… — Veruschka von Lehndorff Copy Share Image
When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
Gravitational waves, because they are so imperturbable - they go through everything - they will tell you the most information you can get about… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
The waves travel with the velocity of light and slightly squeeze and stretch space transverse to the direction of their motion. The first waves… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
Experimentally, we now have demonstrated that Einstein's theory is right in strong gravitational fields. That's important to a lot of people. — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
You think Earth's gravity is really something when you're climbing the stairs. But, as far as physics goes, it is a pipsqueak, infinitesimal, tiny… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
We've seen black holes, which is already wonderful. We also expect to see the merger of neutron stars, and that was a thing that… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
We know about black holes and neutron stars, but we hope there are other phenomena we can see because of the gravitational waves they… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
We were looking almost one-tenth of the way to the edge of the universe. We're planning to use the facilities we have to make… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
It's very, very exciting that it worked out in the end that we are actually detecting things and actually adding to the knowledge, through… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books and science… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
The whole idea of gravity curling up space, that is the epitome of what is going on in a black hole. I would've loved… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
The obvious thing to me was, let's take freely floating masses in space and measure the time it takes light to travel between them.… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
All at once, funding was gone due to the Mansfield Amendment, which was a reaction to the Vietnam War. In the minds of the… — Rainer Weiss 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
