Father Quotes
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When I was growing up, we spoke Egyptian, we ate Egyptian food, we had other Egyptian friends. It was my father's preference.
Leila Aboulela
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Mubarak would meet with me when I was at Central Command. He would lean and put his hand on my knee, as if a father figure, and say, 'General, don't ever forget the Arab Street. Listen to the Arab Street.' I'd like to go to him now and say, 'Mr. President, what about that Arab Street, what's that all about?'
David Petraeus
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Social policy that reunites father and child must always confront itself with the question, 'Are we paying dads to stay, or to go away?' If a single mother receives more money when the father isn’t around than when he is around, there will be fewer fathers around. The government will become her substitute husband.
Warren Farrell
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I grew up in a military family. My father spent 26 years in the Air Force.
Darryl Glenn
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I really love 'Bicycle Thief.' That just reminds me of my relationship with my father.
Mel Rodriguez
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Only the Lord knows how many children lose heart because their fathers have hard days.
R. Kent Hughes
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People often talk about Hispanics. You know, I have more Hispanics come up to me telling me, 'Listen, I can't wait for your father to be president. He's gonna bring jobs back to the United States. He's gonna end the nonsense. He's gonna create good trade deals. He's gonna create better education. He's gonna create a better family structure.'
Eric Trump
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Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.
Dominic Cooper
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Don't be like my mother when my father had a heart attack. My mother had never handled the finances. I don't ever want to see anybody go through that. Women shouldn't be in that position.
Lisa Caputo
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My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that.
Mariano Rivera
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That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?
Maurice Sendak
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My father's a character.
Bryan Adams
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My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee films.
Celina Jade
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My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.
Adrian Anthony Gill
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My father did advertising photography.
Andreas Gursky
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I grew up in a really bad situation; my father left when I was young - you know, an abusive situation. So the minute I put my fingers on a guitar and closed my eyes and just played, it literally was like a drug. It took me into a totally different world, and I just pulled from emotions and experiences that I was going through.
DJ Ashba
Beautiful Creatures
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My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.
Joey Lauren Adams
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I think people are often surprised, but I never defined myself as, 'I'm the business guy who has to supersede what my father has done.'
Donald Trump, Jr.
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I knew what my father, more than anything else, wanted me to do. Seventeen, vain, and spoiled by poems, I prepared to enter a remote West Point. I would succeed there, it was hoped, as he had.
James Salter
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I was born in Catanzaro, Italy, from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father.
Renato Dulbecco
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No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.
Albert Camus
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I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
James Joyce
