Father Quotes
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'Catcher In The Rye' was my favorite book, honestly. I read it when I was thirteen, and the book was a bit of a family heirloom because it was passed down from my grandfather to my father to my older brother and then to me.
Alex Wolff
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Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.
Jack Kirby
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My father's music was influential. My place is my place. I must be myself and who I am.
Stephen Marley
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You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father's image is natural; Freud built a whole career around it.
Arnon Goldfinger
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My father was an all-American football player.
Edwin Moses
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I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it.
C.P. Snow
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My father was the artistic one. At a very young age, my father realised I had a strong voice and made me learn Hindustani vocal. I was five. I have Dad to thank for introducing me to the finer things in life.
Lillete Dubey
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Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.
C. S. Lewis
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My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.
Margot Robbie
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My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.
Jack Roy
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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.
John Hurt
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My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15.
Jeremy Irons
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I love kids, and I think I would be a great dad. I had great parents, and my mother and father are my best friends, so I'd have good examples to lead from.
Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
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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.
Freya Stark
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What I learned from my father is to think big.
Eike Batista
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Mansions once Knew their own masters, and laborious hinds, That had surviv'd the father, serv'd the son. Now the legitimate and rightful lord Is but a transient guest, newly arrived, And soon to be supplanted. He that saw His patrimonial timber cast its leaf, Sells the last scantling, and transfers the price To some shrewd sharper ere it buds again. Estates are landscapes, gazed upon awhile, Then advertised and auctioneer'd away.
William Cowper
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I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared to what followed.
Ian Mcewan
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I'm the father of two boys and two girls, so I'm more an emotional wreck than a mushball.
Mark Wahlberg
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My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.
Kojo Annan
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Oblivion eyes on a cereal box, the warm blinds of a father lost and last to know lost and last to love last boy lost you can't see even a bubble once it's popped
Kami Garcia
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To every little girl her father is a hero.
Alexandra Kerry
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That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
August Strindberg
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The money has always been wasted on me. I don't care for beautiful things, funnily enough. I am my father's daughter. The things that excite me are the smell of a wood-burning stove, uncultivated fields. My house is decaying and falling to pieces. It's not had the love it deserves over twenty years.
Alison Moyet
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I will share a personal experience: my father was posted in Jammu & Kashmir during the Kargil war. I remember my mom sitting in front of television throughout the day reading tickers which had name of the martyrs.
Anushka Sharma