Father Quotes
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In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
Billie Jean King
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My father had a handgun on the bedside table, and we were all taught to handle firearms.
John Hickenlooper
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
Marlene Dietrich
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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.
John David Washington
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Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.
Barack Obama
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'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.
Maurice Sendak
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If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to give me wisdom concerning any requirement in my life, or in regard to my own course, or that of my friends, my family, my children, or those that I preside over, and get no answer from Him, and then do the very best that my judgement will teach me, He is bound to own and honor that transaction, and He will do so to all intents and purposes.
Brigham Young
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To you your father should be as a god.
William Shakespeare
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I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart of rock music.
Sean Lennon
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I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.
Molly Ringwald
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To her, the name of father was another name for love.
Sara Willis
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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.
Quintilian
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Scarlett, from the ashes of the war-ravaged land at Tara, remembering what she was taught by her father in happier times: "As God is my witness, as God is my witness, they're not going to lick me! I'm going to live through this, and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again - no, nor any of my folks! If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill! As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."
Vivien Leigh
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Dear Father, take my heart on a prayer journey today to erase the distance between those I love and me. Amen.
Karen Barber
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I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.
Nick Mason
Pink Floyd
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The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.
George Clooney
