Father Quotes
  
  
  
	
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		You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Katey Sagal
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sam Neill
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Father, fatherWe don't need to escalate.You see, war is not the answerFor only love can conquer hate.You know we've got to find a way To bring some lovin' here today.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Marvin Gaye
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My father once said, 'If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don't have to follow. You don't have to make a big deal about which way you're going. Just go. It's very easy.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Yiannis Chryssomallis
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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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.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Iris Apfel
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dorothy Malone
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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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.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Omar Dorsey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bob Feller
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ralph Abernathy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mandy Patinkin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Xavier Dolan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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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.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Yotam Ottolenghi