Father Quotes
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
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I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.
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Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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In Puerto Rico, I played in all kinds of bands that played salsa and merengue. That's how I saved the money to come to the U.S. We used to play El Gran Combo tunes. Half the band was my friends - we were around 15 - and the other half was my friend's father and his friends from the hospital where he worked. They were all, like, 50.
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Within the walls of our own homes, we can and should bear pure testimony of the divinity and reality of the Father and the Son, of the great plan of happiness, and of the Restoration.
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I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.
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My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.
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My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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My mother never met a gadget she didn't like. There were tube pans for baking the angel food cakes my father could have after his first heart attack, and Bundt pans and loaf pans and baking pans and grilling pans.
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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
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My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
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If father and daughter can manage to cross the finish line of her emancipation together- she accepting Daddy's flaws, he viewing hers as opportunities for her to learn and grow- the ups and downs of their relationship and mutual growth can prepare her for the ambiguities of life. The example of the father weathering his own emotional seasons can help the daughter weather her own.
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My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
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Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.
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I used to steal my father's cologne, and it was so strong. My mother would always know when I did because it was so intrusive. That's why I like Evolution - it's a strong yet subtle scent.
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Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
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All the embroidery is made in my father's workshop in India... and all the cutting and sewing is done in my studio.
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.
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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.
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It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
