Father Quotes
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I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.
John Irving
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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
Pat Conroy
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If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father.
David Cassidy
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Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt and my little brother. We would go to The Chicken Box and all the bars and play.
Meghan Trainor
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I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids.
Kenyon Martin
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When my father died, I was 21, and he'd been sick for a few years. He changed during his illness. He kind of softened during it.
Luanne Rice
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I was so obsessed with film and actors that I wasn't a very good student. I was always in trouble, but my father would always take us to the movies.
Pedro Pascal
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My time is up. I believe … that my time to be with my spiritual father and his sender has come. And your time to go through serious trial has come.
Louis Farrakhan
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The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.
R. C. Sproul
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My father was a picture of courage in terms of his war service and strength, and yet in his decline, I learned primarily negative lessons. I learned what not to do.
Bill de Blasio
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As an actor, it's a very strange adjustment to start playing the father. I was used to playing a kid my whole life, and then all of a sudden, it's like, boom. I guess when I let my hair go grey, things changed.
Kerr Smith
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When I was ten years old, my family left a cold, damp prefab in West Fife and moved to Corby, Northamptonshire, where my father quickly found work at what was then the Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks.
John Burnside
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Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel that my father, had he lived longer, might have been a touch disapproving of some of my career - I think he might have tutted a bit at 'Men Behaving Badly.'
Martin Clunes
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I’ve known Donald (Trump) for a few decades, and what you can say without argument is that he’s a good father. His kids have turned out really well. There’s nothing bad you can say about that.
Gene Klein
Kiss
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I look at my little girl and I wonder what she's going to be and what she's going to do and what is it that leads girls certain directions in life. I think a lot of that goes back to what kind of father they had, and so it makes me want to be the best dad I can possibly be.
Jake Owen
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I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.
David Beckham
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I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.
Duane Michals
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The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation.
E. O. Wilson
