Father Quotes
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My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.
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My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.
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My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.
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My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was.
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My father was a big influence - it was very important to him that we traveled, and he gave me my strong work ethic.
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Learn to see yourself as Heavenly Father sees you - as His precious daughter or son with divine potential.
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He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers, and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on the beds and the windows were always open.
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You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.
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Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died.
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To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.
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What I learned from my father is to think big.
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I don't have a father, but my kids tell me every day that they love me... even when I am not in my best mood.
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Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father.
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I think being a good Christian father, your responsibility varies with the age and the stage that your children are at.
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We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.
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With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
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My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.
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My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.
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Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.
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The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father.
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I worked a telemarketing job. I always worked those because I always knew how to talk to people and I always knew how to sell because my father was a salesman. He used to sell vacuum cleaners, payroll services to companies, so that was natural for me to go into sales.
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.
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My name is Adam. My father's name is Adam. Having the same name as your father, it's alright until your voice changes. My friends would always call up, 'Is Adam there?' My father would say, 'This is Adam.' My friends would say, 'Adam, you were so wasted last night.'
