Father Quotes
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The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.
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People ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown.
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Not having my father around has made me a better person.
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Every footfall, every voice was Don Achille creeping up behind us or coming down toward us with a long knife, the kind used for slicing open a chicken breast. There was an odor of sautéing garlic. Maria, Don Achille’s wife, would put me in the pan of boiling oil, the children would eat me, he would suck my head the way my father did with mullets.
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My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather was classically trained, military trained. He was an orphan who ended up in the Military School of Music in Kneller Hall.
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If you take being a father seriously, you'll know that you're not big enough for the job, not by yourself...Being a father will put you on your knees if nothing else ever did.
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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.
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Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'
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My father is an amazing man.
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Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.
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My father used to tell us, 'You will have to work twice as hard to get what you want.
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I mean, for years [my father] would been doing everything imaginable ... from speed to downers to you name it. I used to call that "changing seats on the Titanic," and I used to say that I myself was not only changing seats on the Titanic but dating the crew.
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I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.
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From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.
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My father was never anti-anything in our house.
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I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.
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Having a strong father, I wanted an older man.
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My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.
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See! This our fathers did for us.
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My father had gone to Vietnam.
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So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.
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Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, “Wonderful. Just have a backup profession like welding.
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My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.
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Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I've made.
