Father Quotes
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I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.
Tom Hanks
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My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.
Sara Zarr
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I have this colored friend Betty well, I never thought about it one way or the other until one day I went over her house for the first time and her father opened the door and I was surprized to see he was colored. Because, to me I was so used to her she always looked normal.
Bel Kaufman
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My mother's a police officer, so there was only so much trouble I could get myself into. But my father grew up on the other side.
Corey Hawkins
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My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.
Ethel Merman
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The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.
William Caxton
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Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.
Roger Federer
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To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father.
Nick Lachey
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My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.
Adam Sandler
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My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.
Ethel Waters
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Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.
Anzia Yezierska
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The will of God for your life is simply that you submit yourself to Him each day and say, 'Father, Your will for today is mine. You lead me today and I will follow.
Kay Arthur
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I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.
Elizabeth Edwards
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War is the father and king of all.
Heraclitus
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I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.
Ernest Hemingway
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When, President Bush asks me to go with his father to the Tsunami impacted areas and help raise money, I was thrilled to do that, because I think we have to always keep looking for common ground.
Bill Clinton
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I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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To be damned is to be banished from, or be deprived of living in the presence of the Father and the Son. Who will live with him? They who will come up and inherit the highest glory that is prepared for the faithful.
Brigham Young
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Vitamins ruined my life. Not that there was much left to ruin, but still. I know that blaming vitamins for my horrible life sounds strange. After all, vitamins are supposed to keep people healthy. Also, they're inanimate objects. But thanks to them I was stuck in the Jackson Center Mall watching my father run around in a bee costume.
Elizabeth Scott
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If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.
William Shakespeare
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My father modestly referred to himself as the Great Santini when we were growing up. And he took it - I later learned he had seen a high-wire aerialist when he was a boy, and he was up doing acrobatics in his airplane, and when he came down one time - when was a young lieutenant - he said, I was better than the Great Santini today. And some of the other pilots heard it, and the nickname stuck.
Terry Gross
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My father would have been spectacularly ill-suited to working for an institution of any kind, and I suspect that, to a lesser degree, that's true of me, too.
Amy Bloom
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All my life I've been seeing things through the culture. My father, for instance, was the press's bad boy. People really hated him. He was always a big flirt. He was always in trouble - going bankrupt, whatever.
Carrie Fisher