Father Quotes
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Unlike some people, my father would try to meet with President-elect Trump because he recognizes that in order to move the agenda of justice, freedom, and equality forward, you can't just protest and resist. You also have to negotiate as well.
Bernice King
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As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.
Alan King
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I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.
Bernard Hill
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I'm used to riding horses. My father used to breed horses when I was a child. I grew up in Tipperary, in the country, and lots of people have horses there.
Kerry Condon
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We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.
Binyavanga Wainaina
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People think my family pushed me into running for office. The person who pushed me most not to run for office was my father.
Joe Kennedy III
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My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.
Janet Fitch
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There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. ... When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.
Khaled Hosseini
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The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
DeForest Kelley
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I used to have frequent arguments with my father which ended in doors slamming and the ultimate expletive ‘Filthy bougeois’
Christian Dior
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I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.
Dave Mustaine
Metallica
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Jerome was dyslexic until he was twelve, before it became fashionable. And he broke every pair of glasses I bought him. He hated wearing glasses. He was good at breaking things. Especially relationships. Just like his father.
Peter Greenaway
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Kenya has deep resonances for the royals: it was here, after all, that the young Princess Elizabeth heard of the death of her father, George VI. From that moment, she was Queen.
Penny Junor
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My first choice had always been my father. He's still my first pick. Now that the nominating process is over, tonight, I'm happy to announce that I'm going to be supporting Governor Romney.
Rand Paul
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To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
William Standish Knowles
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There's a kind of mystery to our being and from my point of view, regarding my own parents and their parents, I'd as soon let it lie than find out who my mother's father was.
T. C. Boyle
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I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
Aaron Neville
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Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot.
John Lahr
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I believe very deeply in my soul that God paired me and my father purposely and that he knew that my father would give me the strength to be a person with disability that was proud, always held her head high, and was never, ever bitter.
Maysoon Zayid
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I will never forget the moment when Peter van Pels and I saw a group of selected men. Among those men was Peter's father. The men were marched away. Two hours later, a lorry came by, loaded with their clothing.
Otto Frank
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My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.
Cate Blanchett
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Oh, Mr Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father!
Kenneth More
