Father Quotes
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I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?
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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.
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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.
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I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all.
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Every boy grows up trying to be like his father, but what if a boy grows up to be like his mother?
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I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.
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the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.
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I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.
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It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
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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.
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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.
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I believe that the appearance of God the Father and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, in 1820 to Joseph Smith unlocked the heavens not only to the great spiritual knowledge revealed in this dispensation but also to secular knowledge.
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My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
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The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.
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As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child.
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(knitting while on a motorcycle) For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and LEAN into the curves, etc), and used a small circular needle (socks and mittens) in order to keep the knitting in her pocket until they were under way; then she leaned back slightly so Gaffer couldn't feel the movement of her hands. On the interstate one day, they were slowly passing a semi and my father happened to see the truck driver laugh and point out my mother's knitting to his passenger.
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Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.
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The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
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I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged, and I've been trying to bring them together for all of my career to one degree or another.
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When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.
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I didn't realize I was still grieving for my father at 30-something.
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Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.
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I think Chris Martin is younger than I am, but when I met him, I felt like I was talking to my father. It's so strange, that feeling when someone is that famous - you assume that they are either older or better.
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I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
