Father Quotes
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Ronnie didn’t want to show anything positive about my dad. He didn’t want to show he was a hero. ‘Jimmy Braddock was a great guy,’ my father always said. But you don’t build him up as the hero of the downtrodden by bringing my dad down.
Max Baer
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What I always wanted to be was a magician... My real upbringing when I was a teenager was doing magic shows, all over the state, with my father and brothers. Doing magic, you not only have to be able to do a trick, you have to have a little story line to go with it. And writing is essentially a trick.
Ken Kesey
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I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.
Donald Miller
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My father was an ardent socialist for many years.
Leon Askin
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My mother's father, Hobart Cromwell, was a bacteriologist with Abbott Laboratories in suburban Chicago. I never got to know him well, as he died very young, but he was always a heroic figure in our family, wise and gentle and intelligent by reputation, with the courage to fight against the McCarthyites.
John C. Mather
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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.
Peter Berg
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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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Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.
Saint Augustine
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Some build their sense of personal worth by comparing themselves to others. That approach can lead to feelings of inadequacy or superiority. It is preferable to look directly to our Father for our sense of self-worth.
Quentin L. Cook
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I had a father who was active, present. There are people out there that never knew their fathers, didn't have their father's support. If I were to complain, that would be real sad. How dare I?
John David Washington
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The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
Robert Frost
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God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
William Peter Blatty
