Father Quotes
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My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.
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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
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My father started me singing in church.
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My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.
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My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.
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It's nice when somebody tells you about their uncle. Especially when they start out telling you about their father's farm and then all of a sudden get more interested in their uncle.
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When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.
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I admire my father greatly.
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I knew I didn't want to pursue an academic career at all, which, of course, my father would have loved me to have done. I didn't want to go to university. The only other thing I could do was paint, and so I went to art school because they couldn't conceive of how one would be an actor.
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Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.
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I'm a father with two daughters, and I don't want them to feel that they have to go and work in China when they are older.
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My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home.
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We all know the personal relationship between Michel Platini and President Blatter. It was like a mentor and protege, or even father and son.
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My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.
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My father's voice had nevertheless remained untainted, inspiring, rebuking, granting or withholding approval. 'You do not work hard enough, Barry. You must help in your people's struggle. Wake up, black man!
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I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?
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To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.
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I am obsessed with fashion, like my mother, and I am obsessed with art, like my father.
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My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.
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My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.
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One of the things my father taught me was you should not exclude those who are opposed to your ideas.
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No one ever saw all of him. It took me nearly four decades to allow my father his shadows, his reserve, to sit silently with him and not clamor for something more.
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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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Louis Armstrong is the father of us all, regardless of style or how modern we get. His influence is inescapable. Some of the things he was doing in the 20's and 30's, people still haven't dealt with.
