Father Quotes
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I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.
Abraham Lincoln
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My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.
Jeff Bridges
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As a father of four, I want our children to enjoy the freedoms and opportunities that are the fruit of progressive values.
Stephen Pagliuca
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My father resented that I was paid so much more than he was.
David Holt
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I've wanted to work with my father for 30 years, and I'm really grateful that I finally had the opportunity, and it ended up - the experience and, I believe, the film - better than I could ever have hoped for.
Kiefer Sutherland
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At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.
John Leguizamo
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My father Time is weak and gray With waiting for a better day; See how idiot-like he stands, Fumbling with his palsied hands!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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My father gave me Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' when I was in junior high; my junior high, angst-filled soul responded to that.
Janet Fitch
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As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.
Lee Haney
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The CIA created, armed and financed the Contras. My father backed them with everything he had. It was my father's war, and almost everyone in Nicaragua has lost somebody as a result of it. I couldn't go down there, being his daughter, and expect not to feel those people's wrath.
Patti Davis
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Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.
Bruce Feiler
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There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you can share with people. It's not just a solitary thing - it's become a family thing, too. It's about exercising and passing something on from father to son, and from mother to daughter.
Kelly Slater
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The father-mother family with two children isolated in a city flat is already insufficient.
Konrad Lorenz
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If my father was alive today, he would have fought for Kurdish rights.
Aleida Guevara
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From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.
Koichi Tanaka
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I always thought of Caesars as the gold standard. I had exactly one date in high school, and my father knew someone who got us comped here for the Sammy Davis Jr. show. We heard 'Candy Man,' 'Mr. Bojangles' - the whole list. And then my date and I went off to the dance - homecoming, I think - where she pretty much ignored me.
Charles Bock
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What scares me is not living up to be a good enough father to my son and letting down my family - not being there enough and not being able to give enough of yourself.
Morten Tyldum
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I wish my mother could have seen the America we’re going to build together. An America, where if you do your part, you reap the rewards. Where we don’t leave anyone out, or anyone behind. An America where a father can tell his daughter: yes, you can be anything you want to be. Even President of the United States.
Hillary Clinton
