Father Quotes
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My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.
Jerry Stiller -
I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business with me. There, I realized I wanted to be a physicist. I had to tell him, which was a somewhat traumatic experience.
Leonard Susskind
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Heavenly Father's commandments are the road map He has given us to return to Him, which is the only way we will be eternally happy.
L. Tom Perry -
I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.
Dominic Chianese -
My father was horrified by my movies, yet he lent me the money to make the early ones. And I paid him back with interest.
John Waters -
My father was interested in justice, always working for people who needed to be supported.
Andy Serkis -
Shoes divide men into three classes. Some men wear their father's shoes. They make no decisions of their own. Some are unthinkingly shod by the crowd. The strong man is his own cobbler. He insists on making his own choices. He walks in his own shoes.
S. D Gordon -
Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.
Sara Willis
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I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
Dean Acheson -
I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.
Peter Fonda -
Oh, than to enjoy a storm like thisThere's nothing I would rather, Don't dive between the blankets, Miss!Or else leave room for Father.
Ogden Nash -
How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?
Jane Fonda -
Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.
Kim Weston -
My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.
Lord Mountbatten
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The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.
Benny Green -
I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
James Earl Jones -
To be honest, I think I'd become a bit selfish with memories of my father. I wanted to hug them close to me.
Jennifer Grant -
I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.
Bernie Mac -
My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.
Claude Chabrol -
I don't want to make a cheap analysis, but when you have, like I did, a father incapable of showing emotion, who spends his life telling you that no one will love you if you aren't perfect, it leaves scars.
Jane Fonda
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When I remember my mother, it makes me really sad. But, when I remember my father, it makes me smile.
Akkineni Nagarjuna -
I think my father couldn't wait to get home to his wife, but I don't know if he was so keen on us children.
Mary Berry -
Father Time is whether you're an athlete or not an athlete. Father Time is always around. I think I'm just special.
Bernard Hopkins -
I have just come down from my father.Higher and higher he liesAbove me in a blue lightShed by a tinted window.
James Dickey