Father Quotes
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I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.
Mavis Staples
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I lost my father when I was 13 years old. He was a great man, my father, and very intelligent. I love him very much. I believe it's very important that parents have a personal connection with their children. It helps kids feel more secure, have a feeling of family, makes them feel loved.
Preity Zinta
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I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother's side it's more mixture, with a Filipino mother and a father who was Scotch Irish-French; you know, white American hybrid. And I also have on my father's side a great-great-grandmother who was Chinese. So, I'm a hybrid.
Jessica Hagedorn
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A girl's father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.
David Jeremiah
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The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.'
Jennifer Grant
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My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always rooted against them, always.
Rabih Alameddine
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My father was in the military; he was a captain. His service was to quote-unquote integrate the Armed Forces overseas.
Joe Morton
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My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they'll give him 10 years, but a guy can do white-collar crime and steal the money of thousands and he'll get probation and a slap on the wrist.
Jesse Ventura
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My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
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I am grateful that early in my life I was blessed with a simple faith that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, that he saw God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, in a vision. He translated the Book of Mormon by the gift and power of God. That testimony has been confirmed to me over and over again.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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My father had to play the role of mother and father.
Diego Luna
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I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.
Jules Feiffer
