Father Quotes
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We deal with God - who is Love. He isn't a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us.
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Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow.
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My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family. There was a lot of love and a lot of conflict. The conflict kicked in mostly during my adolescence.
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The questions about my father are inevitable, regardless of the characters I create or the subject matter.
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I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.
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My father, to me, was 10 feet tall.
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I come from a strong woman who believed - and my father believed - that anything a man could do, a woman could do better.
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I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.
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I decided to see how my voice sounds on different type of records. So I did Eminem and the Biggie, Florence and the Machine, and Muse covers. A couple of them just came from some jam sessions between me and my sister in her bedroom at my father's house in San Diego.
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My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege.
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The central purpose of all scripture is to fill our souls with faith in God the Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ.
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When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.
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My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were orthodox before that and deep down we were always Serbs, religion cannot change that. We only became Muslims to survive the Turks.
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You wouldn't expect a cattle dealer to sit down at a grand piano and play it beautifully. That's my father.
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All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
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My dad - I mean, we've had our ups and downs, you know, just like any father and son probably has. But, you know, we get along really good, honestly.
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I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go to the hospital. He died when I was nine years old on the same day that Franklin Roosevelt died; it was his 45th birthday.
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When we reach out to assist the least of Heavenly Father's children, we do it unto Him. That is the essence of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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I've had the acting bug since I was, like, five. But growing up, I saw how people treated me differently when they knew who my father was, even the stuff I did on the field. Sometimes I'd rush for 100 yards, and the headline would be, 'Denzel's son runs for 100 yards.' That's where the suppression of that bug came from.
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My father loved music. He loved Motown and R&B, and my mother loved Journey and Fleetwood Mac, so they were always listening to it and playing it.
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I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.
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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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It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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Becoming a father is the natural progression and the next stage after marriage. So the thought of becoming a father is itself an incredible feeling!
