Father Quotes
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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.
Salman Rushdie
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If Inigo Montoya were around now, he wouldn't need to storm the castle to bring his father's murderer to justice; the police would do it for him, and fewer people would have to die.
Paul Bloom
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At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father’s business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.
Camille Paglia
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I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard's notoriety. I'm proud of the work I did on Dallas.
Mary Crosby
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My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn't come to any conclusions about it at all.
Katharine Hepburn
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Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad.
Sophocles
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My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
Elizabeth McGovern
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Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
Aristotle
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My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.
Ralph Allen
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I've only ever chosen men who happen to spend a lot of time out of the country, who have jobs that take them all over the world, and I think that's interesting because my father was absent, and then home, and I've always been in relationships where there's separation.
Patsy Kensit
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I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.
Ziggy Marley
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My most important relationships were with my father and grandmother.
Jimmy Cliff
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I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started.
Patrick Henry
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If you want someone who is sort of still, has a bit of an edge, is older, you get Morgan Freeman. If you want someone who can carry a gun and still play a father, you get Danny Glover. My category is 'that guy who happens to be black.'
Joe Morton
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A man was defined, in my father's circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself.
John Burnside
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My son and daughter lost their father quite young, so we keep him present with us. It's just a daily practice.
Patti Smith
