Father Quotes
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Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.
Irving Stone -
My father was a very difficult man.
Sade Adu
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I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He's an interior designer and he's really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton.
Kathleen Robertson -
I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God.
Ziggy Marley -
My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
Ted Danson -
I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
Patricia Kaas -
To have committed every crime but that of being a father.
Emil Cioran -
When my father passed away, he had his organs donated. In that painful moment, I was deeply comforted knowing that my father would be able to give others a second chance at life. That is why I encourage everyone to sign up to be a donor.
John Perez
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My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.
Edgar Ramirez -
Honestly, I have been able to accept my father's new relationship because you get to that point with your parents that you realise it's their life, not yours.
Ella Woodward -
My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
Malcolm X -
I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.
Dante Hall -
Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
Sam Shepard -
Within the walls of our own homes, we can and should bear pure testimony of the divinity and reality of the Father and the Son, of the great plan of happiness, and of the Restoration.
David A. Bednar
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
Patricia Kaas -
There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I'm quite sure I will share the same fate.
Franz Wright -
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
Orson Welles -
I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother. I probably wanted to be that person who he could be proud of.
Kangana Ranaut -
I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
Macaulay Culkin -
My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head of procurement for some of the biggest companies in the world as well as our very own treasury.
Ian Watson
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I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes, eyes that had not opened for many, many days, and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love.
Patti Davis -
The flames roll'd on-he would not goWithout his father's word;That father, faint in death below,His voice no longer heard.
Felicia Hemans -
I didn't have a father figure in the house.
The Weeknd -
Mozart had extensive training from his father, who was widely considered the greatest living music teacher in all of Europe at the time.
Daniel Levitin