“My father was ruined by hard drink - he sat on an icicle.”

“College is the best thing that can ever happen to you," my father used to say, and he was right, for it was there that I discovered drugs, drinking, and smoking..”

“It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.”

“It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.”

“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”

“My father considered that anyone who went to chapel and didn't drink alcohol was not to be tolerated. I grew up in that belief.”

“I had a chance to play that instrument for six days. Hearing German spoken around me made me think of my father, who died in 1960, and whom I hadn't thought much about in recent years. And I remembered what he meant to me. I played "Du, du liegst mir im Herzen" because my father used to sing it to me. So I sat there, thinking of my father, and weeping.”

“My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up.”

“I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard”

“Voroshilov was a hard-riding, hard-drinking military crony of civil-war days.”