Father Quotes
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I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate, Are the liberators here?Do I hope or do I fear?For my father and my brother, it’s too late but I must help my mother stand up straight.Are we the last ones left alive?Are we the only human beings to survive? - Red Sector A (1984)
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My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.
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And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
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It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
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My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in your community.'
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As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
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Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.
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We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever.
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When I turned 11, we had to leave East Germany overnight because of the political orientation of my father. Now I was going to school in West Germany, which was American-occupied at that time. There in school, all children were required to learn English and not Russian. To learn Russian had been difficult, but English was impossible for me.
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I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.
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My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.
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My first pictures are from 1972, and my first proper camera dates back to 1973. During the first year I used my father's camera. It had a flash on it, which I don't like, but I didn't know anything about photography back then, so it was just what I did.
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My father was in the military, so I was in Okinawa.
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Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?
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Our father always made us work. I think that's the greatest thing a parent could ever do.
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Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.
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As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.
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My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.
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The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.
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The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.
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Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.
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Tony knew me both as an athlete and as a person. He cared for me like a father.
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My favorite preacher is not with me anymore, and that's my father.
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Father, perfect my trust;Let my spirit feel in death,That her feet are firmly setOn the rock of a living faith!
