Father Quotes
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My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.
Lincoln Steffens
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No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.
Christie Hefner
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.
Jim Jeffords
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My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.
Gerard Depardieu
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I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.
Corrie Ten Boom
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That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about.
Alan King
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Amen meaneth assuredly, namely, that I am sure that petitions of this kind are accepted by my Heavenly Father, and heard by him, because he hath commanded us, that we should pray after this manner, and hath promised that he will hear us. Amen, Amen: that is, truly, certainly, so be it.
Martin Luther
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My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.
Merry Clayton
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The child shall become father to the man.
William Wordsworth
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Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.
Clive Anderson
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My father was from Aberdeen, and a more generous man you couldn't wish to meet. I have a gold watch that belonged to him. He sold it to me on his deathbed. I wrote him a cheque for it, post dated of course.
Chic Murray
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My father was a beautiful man.
Shania Twain
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My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.
Henry Louis Gates
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One of the important things for me is that my father is from Sri Lanka. But even more importantly, he was a consultant for the World Bank.
Sunil Yapa
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My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting influence must have been from her - yes, put it down to my mother.
Ciaran Hinds
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I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!
Peter Fonda
