Father Quotes
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.
Rupert Murdoch
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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.
Ricky Jay
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Whoever is king, is also the father of his country.
William Congreve
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Father, you left me, but I never left you.
John Lennon The Beatles
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They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father."
Emily Dickinson
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I tried to be the greatest boxer in the world and a good parent, too. I had instant feedback on my success as a boxer. Often, parents don't really know if what they are doing is right or wrong until their child is grown and it is too late to change any of the decisions. Whatever my failings as a parent, I am very proud of all my children. It wasn't easy for them to make their own way with such a controversial and public father.
Muhammad Ali
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I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.
Cate Blanchett
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But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.
Treat Williams
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The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more impermeable.
Marcel Proust
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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.
Elisabeth Elliot
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The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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I’m going to kill the president. I promise. I surrender. I'm sorry. I'm gay. I'm pregnant. I'm dying. I'm not your father. You're fired. Fire. I forgot your birthday. You will have to lose the leg. She was asking for it. It ran right under the car. It looked like a gun. It's contagious. She’s with God now. Help me. I don't have a problem. I’ve swallowed a bottle of aspirin. I'm a doctor. I'm leaving you. I love you. Fuck you. I’ll change.
Ben Lerner
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I am just an earthly sinful father & I love my kids so much it hurts. How could I not trust a heavenly, perfect Father who loves me infinitely more than I will ever love my kids?
Francis Chan
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Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.
Mother Teresa
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God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do.
John Ruskin
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My father is an amazing man.
Sherman Alexie
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To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
Seneca the Younger
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Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.
Michael Reagan
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So if you don't like your life, change it. How would you change it? You decide. There's no action without first decision. Decision is the mother or the father of action, and action is what changes your life.
Anthony Robbins
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The heart set to do the Father's will, need never fear defeat.
Elisabeth Elliot
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I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.
Virginia Woolf
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If a hero is a person on which you've made an explicit choice model yourself, mine is my father for showing me how to live a life of substance.
Vivienne Ming
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Fine,' Aria conceded. 'But *I'll* carry her.' She grabbed the baby seeat from the back. A smell of baby powder wafted up to greet her, bringing a lump in her throat. Her father Byron, and his girlfriend, Meredith, had just had a baby, and she loved Lola with all her heart. If she looked too long at this baby, she might love her just as much.
Sara Shepard