Father Quotes
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In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.
Alexandra Kerry
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Bond is actually my dream role. Only because it was the film I watched with my grandfathers and father from a very young age, and it would be the only way that I could actually repay them with my art form for what they've done for me.
Aneurin Barnard
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I just tried to play the game the right way. As you get older, Father Time is undefeated.
Jason Kidd
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The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.
Lajos Kassak
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The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and how my family had come together and come apart - sorting all that out, you know, issues of personal identity.
Barack Obama
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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, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament.
Ziggy Marley
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My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.
Brian Stokes Mitchell
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I was thinking of my father's family. I can find their graves, but not that much about them. They didn't do anything notable enough to be in the records of newspapers.
Daniel Woodrell
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When my father was assassinated, I decided that I would not compete with his memory, but the priority would be to achieve his dream.
Benigno Aquino III
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My father was a self-employed, commission-only salesman. He sold double-glazing and fitted kitchens, amongst other things. As he never declared himself unemployed, there was never recourse to benefits, so if money was tight, money was tight. It taught me that we were a closed unit, and that we had to be resourceful.
Neil Oliver
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It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.
Anton Chekhov
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I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
Agnes Macphail
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In my mind, I was still Chimere's father. I was there when he was born. I saw him when he first came out. I held him. He was my kid.
Ne-Yo
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One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
George Herbert
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My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life.
Dikembe Mutombo
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My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.
James Nasmyth
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No single living entity really influenced my life as did my father ... He lived as if he were poured from iron, and loved his family with a vulnerability that was touching.
Mari Evans
