Father Quotes
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If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father?
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I understood the power of Heinz since I was a kid, and I started to work for my father selling food to restaurants.
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My father knew classical music very well. Driving in the car, listening to the radio, he could name every composer, every movement, what piece it was. I was fascinated by the way he recognized who wrote what.
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My mom sang in high school choir and so did my father.
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I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.
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Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my father's position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone.
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I was always nervous to play my father's John Lennon's songs.
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I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'
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My mother is a poet/novelist, and my father was a pianist and cook. Both artists who colored my personality and brain in ways I'm still discovering!
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My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.
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My father was absolutely no good.
Charles B. Rangel -
No triumph of either my stage or screen career has ever rivalled the excitement of trips down the Mississippi on the river boats with my father.
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Security is a complicated idea and one with an immense potential to trap us - that was one lesson I learnt from my father.
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If my father had a heart attack, it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.
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As a father, I've tried to encourage my children to have a broader and deeper emotional life than I've had. I want my sons to be able to express their feelings about things.
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'Visitation' reflects the era of the absentee father; 'parent time' influences the re-emergence of the involved father. 'Visitation' reflects the destruction of the family; 'parent time' influences the reconstruction of the family. 'Parent time' influences an era that understands that as either parents loses, so lose the children.
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My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.
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When I was growing up, my father would not allow me to get a perm, so I straightened my hair for special occasions.
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I didn't have the drive; I never wanted to be in show business. I went into my father's business because of osmosis.
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I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.
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I absolutely love Ireland. It's one of the most beautiful places on Earth, and I have strong ties here. Both my grandmothers are from Ireland, and I have spent every summer in Bantry since my father, who is an artist, had the romantic idea 20 years ago to buy an old farmhouse on the west coast and renovate it.
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My father used to see God in human beings and in his work. Each person has his own way.
