Father Quotes
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His father was a Butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's Trade, but when he kill'd a Calfe he would doe it in high style, and make a Speech.
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I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.
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It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther.
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I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but she just smiled and turned away. And the three men I admire most, The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, They caught the last train to the coast The day the music died.
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My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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I am a daughter. My father is an example for me.
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Since the day I was born, wrestling has sustained me and my family. It's the way my father fed me; it's the way I feed my kids. More importantly, wrestling is my greatest release. It's been such a blessing for me. I can step into the ring and let it all go - all my anger, all my frustration, all my pain.
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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 was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child.
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I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.
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My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.
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I want to be remembered as, I hope, an amazing husband and a great father.
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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
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Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.
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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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My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.
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Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.
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I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
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My father taught us that to thrive, excellence in technology, quality, and customer service along with cost competitiveness is a prerequisite. His contribution to business, the economy, and society at large can never be underscored enough.
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I used to not be confident. My father certainly didn't add to my confidence. When I was 17 or 18, I was voted the most beautiful girl in England by the association of press photographers. When they called Daddy for a comment, he said, 'I'm amazed. She's a nice looking girl, but nothing special.'
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The workplace should have a place where the kids can visit. They should have places at the mother's or the father's work where professionals can have their kids visit them whenever they feel like it.
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My father went to Rutgers, and I grew up in New Jersey, so I'm a great Rutgers fan. I have season tickets.
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Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
