Tom Dreesen famous quotes

We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway.
-- Tom Dreesen

#Family #Water #Matter

You have to remember, Frank Sinatra is 82 years old, which is 240 in your years. He's lived three lifetimes! He has good and bad days. He can't run ... around as fast as he used to.
-- Tom Dreesen

#Running #Bad Day #Years

My father told me ***** would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.
-- Tom Dreesen

#Family #Father #Marijuana

Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing.
-- Tom Dreesen

#Two #Evil #People

My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.
-- Tom Dreesen

#Family #Father #Marijuana

The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.

No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives

I love love stories, no matter how dark.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

No matter what happens, you can get through this day. Inhale. Focus on the word, 'relax. Exhale. Say, 'I can do this!' And then do it.