Father Quotes
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I'm a big fan of my father.
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.
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Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.
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When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.
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I shave every day with an ancient manual razor. It was my father's, and I love it.
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At one time, my mother did plan to divorce my father when she found out about an affair he had with a model, the sister of one of my brother's girlfriends.
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I had a wonderful father, and I couldn't bear that television virtually ignored black fathers.
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I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.
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Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.
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My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.
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Oh father high in heaven - smile down upon your sonWho's busy with his money games - his women and his gun.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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I have lived with extraordinary women, whether it was my grandmother, my mother. My father passed away when I was 16... I was witness to a woman who single handedly brought up the entire family and managed to do everything... She was an extraordinary role model for me.
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My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
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Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
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Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.
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I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.
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While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
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I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
