Father Quotes
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My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.
Ziggy Marley
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But prosperity, and the happy issue of events, ought also to be attributed to his grace, in order that he may always receive the praise which he deserves, that of being a merciful Father, and an impartial Judge. About the close of the psalm, he inveighs against those ungodly men who will not acknowledge God's hand, amid such palpable demonstrations of his providence.
John Calvin
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He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realised that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.
Cormac McCarthy
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Our Heavenly Father created the universe that we might reach our potential as His sons and daughters.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.
Ahmet Zappa
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I was raised with a father who really believed in the bridge between all Africans around the world.
Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
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But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
Buffalo Bill
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Love for family and friends, great as it may be, is much more profound when anchored in the love of Jesus Christ. Parental love for children has more meaning here and hereafter because of Him. All loving relationships are elevated in Him. Love of our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ provides the illumination, inspiration, and motivation to love others in a loftier way.
Russell M. Nelson
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My father said, 'You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals'.
J. Paul Getty
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I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.
Miguel
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Of all your associations, it is your relationship with God, your Heavenly Father, who is the source of your moral power.
D. Todd Christofferson
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I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
Pat Conroy
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While my mother is from Jammu, my father was originally from Afghanistan, as my grandfather was the governor of five provinces there, including Herat.
Adnan Sami
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My father's politics and ideas were, to me, unforgivable. He was a Jewish convert who became very anti-Semitic, and I didn't find the anti-Semitism forgivable.
Mary Gordon
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My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.
Donald Barthelme
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A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in his lifetime then a black man of my father's generation. I was born after the Voting Rights Act, after the Civil Rights Act, after the Fair Housing Act.
James Forman, Jr.
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We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
Frank Ocean
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When my father died, I was nine or 10, and my mother was like a dad and a mom to me. She raised me and supported me when I came to the U.S.
Sonita Alizadeh
