Father Quotes
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I want my daughter to see that I am a professional and have commitments, but that I'm there when the family needs me, and so is their father. In some cases, more so.
Christy Turlington
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My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.
Veruschka von Lehndorff
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Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.
Gloria Estefan
Miami Sound Machine
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My mother and father were visionaries in Pittsburgh, part of that collective of people who were creative and active together, and I am a product of that community and those relationships.
Lamman Rucker
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We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.
Frank McCourt
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In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little wooden case stocked with tubes of paint, and, tucked into the spare-tire well, one of my father's old, tobacco-stained shirts, for a smock.
Jill Lepore
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I have an uncle who lived to 101, and my father died at 95, so I have a second career ahead of me.
Alan Gerry
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As its citizens humbly recommit to an acceptance of guidance from the God of our fathers, our nation will once again see the miraculous resurrection of the proud, responsible, visionary black father. And with him, his family and community will be lifted.
Burgess Owens
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My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
Valentino Rossi
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I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.
Neko Case
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Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot.
John Lahr
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I don't feel the depression the people who are always looking back to the '50s, to 'Father Knows Best' feel. I can see the coming of another glorious era.
Bharati Mukherjee
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He was a very strict father, which in a way has helped me to become who I am today. He never pampered me, as he wanted me to live a normal life. No film magazines were allowed at home, and we weren't allowed to watch any movies.
Ram Charan
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I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.
Anna Neagle
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The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.
R. C. Sproul
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When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.
T. D. Jakes
