Father Quotes
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My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
J. G. Ballard
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
Usher
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Every person on the earth today lived at one time in heavenly realms. We walked with our Heavenly Father. We knew Him. We heard His voice. We loved Him.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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You see, unfortunately, I am not black. There are lots of different kinds of blood in our family. But here in the United States, the word 'Negro' is used to mean anyone who has any Negro blood at all in his veins. In Africa, the word is more pure. It means all Negro, therefore black. I am brown. My father was a darker brown. My mother an olive-yellow.
Langston Hughes
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I said on numerous occasions how I feel about my father. I love him with all my heart.
Cam Newton
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A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call 'Daddy.'
Frank Abagnale
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God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.
Paracelsus
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I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
Candace Bushnell
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I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
Jacob Epstein
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Honestly, I wish I could be a part of all the remakes of my father's films. But on second thought, I wouldn't want to be a part of any. The thought of being compared to him is unnerving. I'd rather do my films than live in the fear of living up to his standards.
Abhishek Bachchan
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When I remember my mother, it makes me really sad. But, when I remember my father, it makes me smile.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
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You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.
Pierce Brosnan
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My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.
Ed Begley, Jr.
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Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.
Carlo Collodi
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My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.
Garry Marshall
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As you know, my father was for the inclusiveness and the betterment of society and the world. Certainly we recognize that there are diverse voices in our country, and people have the right of free speech. They have the right of choice, but again, it is our hope that when they choose, they choose to reflect those ideals that he taught us.
Bernice King
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My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
Walter Salles
