Father Quotes
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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.
Angela Robinson
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The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.
Pele
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I am restless like my father and do two-three things at a time.
Varun Dhawan
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I was brought up in a Christian home in Australia with a father who was very bold about his faith.
Ken Ham
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I've never been married, and I have no regrets about not starting my own family. I come from a large one, so there are so many people around all the time. I've been very happy, but I've never gotten married. That's about the size of it. I would have been a good father because I've been a father to my brothers' and sisters' children.
Johnny Mathis
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Between myself, my brother, my father, and my wife, we have four of the 1,500 concealed carry permits for New York City, which is one of the most difficult carry licenses to get anywhere in the world and certainly in the United States. It is something we believe in fundamentally.
Donald Trump, Jr.
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Growing up, everybody told me I was good. I was playing ping-pong with my father, and he'd say, 'That's a good shot,' but I'd mess up the next one, and I'd yell, 'Don't tell me that! I'll mess up! Just don't say anything!' You know, if someone says, 'You can't do that,' then I'm going to be, 'Yeah, you watch me.'
Allison Janney
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My father came from Cuba, but he married a nice Jewish girl in Miami, and I followed suit and married a nice Jewish girl in Miami as well.
Carlos Lopez-Cantera
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I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father.
Alexi Giannoulias
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My father was a Baptist preacher, and he used to read the King James Bible to me every single morning. He made me memorize it and repeat verses at night before I went to sleep.
Jay Parini
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My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.
Wyclef Jean
Fugees
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My father made sure of discipline, but my mum, she was serious business.
Alek Wek
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My father was a big influence - it was very important to him that we traveled, and he gave me my strong work ethic.
Marcus Samuelsson
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Your father cares as little as we do. It's just that he tends to despair, while we are full of hope.
Orson Scott Card
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If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.
Mary Todd Lincoln
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My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was Heir to my Fathers Estate, and as it were the Father to take care of us all, is not less Valiant than they were, although his skill in the Discipline of War was not so much, being not bred therein.
Margaret Cavendish
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We've all grown up with 'Ozzie and Harriet,' 'Father Knows Best,' 'Eight Is Enough.' White families have always represented the universal family.
Joe Morton
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My father speaks for himself, through his music.
Ziggy Marley
