Father Quotes
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My father was actually a chemist. He got a degree in chemistry from Stanford.
Bill Foster -
There ain't a note that I play on stage that can’t be traced back directly to my mother and father.
Bruce Springsteen
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My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
Daniel Bruhl -
I've been a biker, I've been a convict, I've been a husband, father, and son.
Duane Chapman -
It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
Xavier Dolan -
I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
Ziggy Marley -
My father realizes that he did okay with me. He did the best he could.
Sage Stallone -
Being a father is a huge responsibility but a satisfying one.
Pierce Brosnan
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
Madeleine Peyroux -
My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.
Abraham Lincoln -
A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.
Sigmund Freud -
Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.
Viggo Mortensen -
My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
Jack Wagner -
Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
Gavin Newsom
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If I had to do it all over again, would I want my dad here? I would say no. Our world is in a better place because our father gave his life.
Bernice King -
My father and brothers were in the military.
Garth Brooks -
I am the oldest of three girls and the only one not named after one of my father's ex-girlfriends.
Lisa Jewell -
My children are now adults and just kind of guide them while they allow you to have input in their lives without controlling them the way you did when they were toddlers. These are good steps to use for fathers at each step of their children's lives.
T. D. Jakes -
Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well from much practice of their own. They were never so much delighted as when I visited them with a black eye or a bloody nose, at which time they would be at the trouble to give cunning points as to how to meet an opponent according to his weight and height.
W. H. Davies -
My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
Naomi Klein
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My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.
Edgar Ramirez -
This means that if a person fulfills his or her vocation as a steelmaker, attorney, or homemaker coram Deo, then that person is acting every bit as religiously as a soul-winning evangelist who fulfills his vocation. It means that David was as religious when he obeyed God’s call to be a shepherd as he was when he was anointed with the special grace of kingship. It means that Jesus was every bit as religious when He worked in His father’s carpenter shop as He was in the Garden of Gethsemane.
R. C. Sproul -
My mother always wanted a boy. My father never did.
Joe Penny -
With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
Vince Gill