Dinesh D'Souza Quotes

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.

The fundamental human truth underpinning 'Ox Mountain Death Song' is that men so very often turn into their fathers. The way that everything gets passed down.

As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.

I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.

I don't care what you do - baseball or politics - George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years - Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.

Most every young man either takes inspiration from his father or wishes he could. I was fortunate in that I could.

People who knew Dad used to say at times I was brought up as the son Dad never had.

Every backstory involves my father. I remember hearing Gary Oldman talking about backstories and saying, 'I got to stop using my father...' And I feel the same way. I don't know. What I come up with always involves some element of this son trying to prove himself to his father.

I think the Knight boys have a long history of disappointing their fathers.

I don't know that I've gotten to the point where people know me more than my dad or that I ever will or even want to get to that point.

It was difficult showing up in Grade 1 as Pierre Elliott Trudeau's son, it was difficult to become a high school teacher as Pierre Elliott Trudeau's son. That's something that I've lived with all my life. What people don't necessarily remember is that my father was an incredibly present dad as a prime minister.

I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.'

There isn't a dude outside my dad who had greater influence on my life.

George W. Bush reminds every American woman of her first husband.

I never had a real conversation with my father.

The more successful sons and daughters know when to lean on their parents - and when to go their own way. George W. Bush helped run his father's presidential campaigns in 1988 and 1992. But in his winning campaign for governor of Texas, he never mentioned his father's name in any of his campaign commercials.

Many of my deepest insecurities stem from my issues with my dad.

Everything a parent chooses to do in their life will forever haunt their kids.

All young men can relate to that moment where they have to - or, rather, attempt to - stand up to their dads with their own ideas of what they want for their own lives.