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The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
Author:
Zinedine Zidane
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I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
Author:
Zinedine Zidane
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My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.
Author:
Warren Zevon
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I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.
Author:
Michael Zaslow
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How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.
Author:
Moon Zappa
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There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.
Author:
Dweezil Zappa
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Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.
Author:
Martin Yan
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I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
Author:
Andrew Wyeth
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The child is father of the man.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.
Author:
Tobias Wolff
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And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.
Author:
John Wise
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Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond.
Author:
John Wise
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I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.
Author:
Peta Wilson
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My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.
Author:
Kenneth Wilson
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My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!
Author:
Cassandra Wilson
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I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.
Author:
William Wills
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Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.
Author:
Henry Williamson
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But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.
Author:
Treat Williams
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I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.
Author:
Kim Wilde
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Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to.
Author:
Margaret Whiting
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
Author:
Patrick White
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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
Author:
E. White
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Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.
Author:
Kim Weston
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My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
Author:
Mary Wesley
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
Author:
H. Wells
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We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
Author:
Lawrence Welk
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We felt often that we were perceived as mothers trying to be lawyers, while a male colleague of ours who had a young child was perceived as a lawyer who also happened to be a father.
Author:
Anne Weisberg
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The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.
Author:
Mike Weir
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My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He didn't charge people like he should have... which is why I was allowed to play bars and strip joints when I was 14.
Author:
Max Weinberg
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My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.
Author:
George Weinberg
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My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe closer to Alien. I don't see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters.
Author:
Sigourney Weaver
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My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.
Author:
Sigourney Weaver
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I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.
Author:
Sigourney Weaver
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My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand.
Author:
Damon Wayans
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My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.
Author:
Damon Wayans
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
Author:
Sam Waterston
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That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller.
Author:
Lew Wasserman
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I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.
Author:
Denzel Washington
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Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?
Author:
Dionne Warwick
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My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.
Author:
Mary Ward
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I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.
Author:
Julie Walters
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My father was gone when I was three years old.
Author:
Marc Wallice
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My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.
Author:
John Walker
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Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids.
Author:
Herschel Walker
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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
Author:
Alice Walker
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One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father.
Author:
Christopher Walken
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Author:
Voltaire
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That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.
Author:
Miroslav Vitous
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When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.
Author:
Tony Visconti
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I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.
Author:
Tony Visconti
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My father loved people, children and pets.
Author:
Tony Visconti
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My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.
Author:
Tony Visconti
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My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.
Author:
Antonio Villaraigosa
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
Author:
Immanuel Velikovsky
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My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.
Author:
Immanuel Velikovsky
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When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me.
Author:
Immanuel Velikovsky
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On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers.
Author:
Immanuel Velikovsky
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My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.
Author:
Conrad Veidt
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My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.
Author:
Conrad Veidt
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It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.
Author:
Alan Vega
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Author:
Jim Valvano
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My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.
Author:
Keith Urban
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I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.
Author:
Sigrid Undset
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I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.
Author:
Blair Underwood
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In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.
Author:
Evelyn Underhill
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I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.
Author:
Steven Tyler
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
Author:
Ted Turner
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My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.
Author:
Kathleen Turner
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I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.
Author:
Kathleen Turner
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No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.
Author:
Margaret Turnbull
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My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.
Author:
Paul Tsongas
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My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Author:
Harry Truman
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It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.
Author:
Jeanne Tripplehorn
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My father and brothers were coal miners.
Author:
Merle Travis
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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.
Author:
Pete Townshend
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I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.
Author:
Clyde Tombaugh
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My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.
Author:
James Tobin
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I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.
Author:
Todd Tiahrt
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We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation.
Author:
John Thune
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My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
Author:
Marlo Thomas
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As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.
Author:
Marlo Thomas
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My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.
Author:
Toots Thielemans
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As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.
Author:
Alan Thicke
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I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
Author:
Major Taylor
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From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.
Author:
Koichi Tanaka
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I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
Author:
Amy Tan
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My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.
Author:
Amber Tamblyn
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Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.
Author:
George Takei
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An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
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My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army.
Author:
Stuart Symington
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There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.
Author:
Gloria Swanson
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Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.
Author:
Janet Suzman
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I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge.
Author:
John Sutter
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I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then.
Author:
Kiefer Sutherland
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The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it.
Author:
Kiefer Sutherland
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A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
Author:
William Sumner
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On the justice of the cause of Prince Edouard, adding insurances of greatest sincerity to help it and support it and give him on all occasions of the marks of the same feelings as I have for the King his father.
Author:
Henry Stuart
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The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.
Author:
Erich Stroheim
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That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
Author:
August Strindberg
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Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that.
Author:
Sharon Stone
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My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.
Author:
Jerry Stiller
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My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.
Author:
David Stiers
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I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.
Author:
Payne Stewart
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Author:
Gloria Steinem
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As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.
Author:
George Steinbrenner
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It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.
Author:
William Steig
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My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.
Author:
Jason Statham
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In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.
Author:
Bruce Springsteen
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
Author:
Carl Spitteler
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My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.
Author:
Mickey Spillane
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After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.
Author:
Catherine Spence
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I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.
Author:
Catherine Spence
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Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.
Author:
Joanna Southcott
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God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
Author:
Robert South
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My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.
Author:
David Soul
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Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.
Author:
David Soul
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My father taught me how to substitute realities.
Author:
Mira Sorvino
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I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.
Author:
Theodore Sorensen
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
Author:
Barry Sonnenfeld
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Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.
Author:
Stephen Sondheim
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My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.
Author:
James Somerville
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The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he tries to shoot any of the stags, their antlers will tear him to pieces.
Author:
Georg Solti
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The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.
Author:
William Smith
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There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?
Author:
Will Smith
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My children, Michael and Alex, are with our Heavenly Father now, and I know that they will never be hurt again. As a mom, that means more than words could ever say.
Author:
Susan Smith
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My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
Author:
Yakov Smirnoff
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Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
Author:
Agnes Smedley
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
Author:
Agnes Smedley
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My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.
Author:
Erika Slezak
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I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.
Author:
Ricky Skaggs
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I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?
Author:
Paul Simon
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My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.
Author:
Carly Simon
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I coached against Dave the last couple of years, and I was very proud to be the first time a father ever coached against his son. He beat me for 30 minutes the first time and 59 and a half minutes the second time.
Author:
Don Shula
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People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.
Author:
Martin Short
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The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'
Author:
Dinah Shore
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When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.
Author:
Dinah Shore
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My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.
Author:
Brooke Shields
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I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
Author:
Billy Sherwood
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Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
Author:
Sam Sheppard
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I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.
Author:
Sam Sheppard
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Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in our family have been destroyed. I try to take good care of myself, but we are fighting the good fight, and the truth is powerful.
Author:
Sam Sheppard
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James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
Author:
Al Sharpton
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The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
Author:
Karl Shapiro
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I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
Author:
Garry Shandling
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I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.
Author:
Tony Shalhoub
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Author:
Anne Sexton
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I do not separate Christ from God more than a voice from the speaker or a beam from the sun. Christ is the voice of the speaker. He and the Father are the same thing, as the beam and the light, are the same light.
Author:
Michael Servetus
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Father Fernando did every thing in his power to assist the sick; and although he arrived much reduced in flesh, he did not become ill, and is now well.
Author:
Junipero Serra
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My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
Author:
Amy Sedaris
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
Author:
Victoria Secunda
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My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.
Author:
John Sebastian
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My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.
Author:
John Sebastian
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Conversion is a very, very important part of what you are doing. We will have a responsibility to report to Heavenly Father regarding those we bring into the Church.
Author:
Richard Scott
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Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.
Author:
Bruno Schulz
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In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
Author:
Bruno Schulz
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This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.
Author:
Bruno Schulz
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
Author:
Pat Schroeder
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I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to?
Author:
Curt Schilling
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I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.
Author:
Egon Schiele
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And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.
Author:
Bob Schieffer
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My father was absent and he was a hero to me.
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Greta Scacchi
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I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.
Author:
Greta Scacchi
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Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
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Marilyn Savant
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Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.
Author:
Frederick Sanger
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I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.
Author:
Adam Sandler
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Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
Author:
Adam Sandler
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I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.
Author:
Leverett Saltonstall
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So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
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Walter Salles
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And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.
Author:
Katey Sagal
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You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
Author:
Katey Sagal
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When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.
Author:
Katey Sagal
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.
Author:
Georges Rouault
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I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person.
Author:
Tim Roth
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But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
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Isabella Rossellini
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My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer - the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.
Author:
Diana Ross
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My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
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Pete Rose
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From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.
Author:
Dave Ronk
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Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.
Author:
Cesar Romero
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If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!
Author:
Cesar Romero
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If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.
Author:
Ray Romano
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My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
Author:
David Rockefeller
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Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
Author:
David Rockefeller
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But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody.
Author:
Kid Rock
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Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.
Author:
Kid Rock
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My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
Author:
Arthur Rock
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My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
Author:
Edward Robinson
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My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave.
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Paul Robeson
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I went to visit my father to tell him that I was going to go to college and become an architect - that was my dream. I was like, yeah I graduated from school, but it's not like you showed up for that. But all he was worried about is whether or not I wanted money from him.
Author:
Jake Roberts
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My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.
Author:
Tim Robbins
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Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.
Author:
Sam Rivers
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I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.
Author:
Geraldo Rivera
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I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father.
Author:
Herb Ritts
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As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.
Author:
Manfred Richthofen
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
Author:
Patricia Richardson
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Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.
Author:
Patricia Richardson
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I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
Author:
Natasha Richardson
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My mom sang in high school choir and so did my father.
Author:
Kevin Richardson
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My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.
Author:
Ryan Reynolds
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We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father.
Author:
Janet Reno
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Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination.
Author:
Richard Reeves
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My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.
Author:
Ron Reagan
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My father felt that children should make their own way.
Author:
Ron Reagan
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My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.
Author:
Ron Reagan
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I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way.
Author:
Ron Reagan
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Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.
Author:
Michael Reagan
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You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.
Author:
Michael Reagan
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My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
Author:
James Rainwater
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
Author:
Francois Rabelais
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I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.
Author:
Sally Quinn
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Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event.
Author:
Sally Quinn
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I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.
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Anthony Quinn
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Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.
Author:
Anthony Quinn
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I was brought up in a whorehouse in Peoria. My mother and father lived there and worked there.
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Richard Pryor
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I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
Author:
Charley Pride
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Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.
Author:
Jacques Prevert
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You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.
Author:
Priscilla Presley
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I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.
Author:
Lisa Presley
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I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.
Author:
Lisa Presley
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I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.
Author:
Lisa Presley
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God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.
Author:
Orson Pratt
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The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
Author:
Orson Pratt
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I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions.
Author:
Pete Pont
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My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
Author:
Sidney Poitier
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The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.
Author:
Christopher Plummer
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I am really looking forward to driving another of my father?s car at the show in Rotterdam.
Author:
Nelson Piquet
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Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
Author:
Zebulon Pike
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But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Author:
Albert Pike
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I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'
Author:
Emo Philips
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My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.
Author:
Madeleine Peyroux
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
Author:
Madeleine Peyroux
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Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.
Author:
William Petty
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I have patterned myself after my father and God.
Author:
Adam Petty
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Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem.
Author:
William Petersen
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Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
Author:
Laurence Peter
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Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.
Author:
Martin Perl
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Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.
Author:
William Pennington
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He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
Author:
William Penn
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Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
Author:
Sean Penn
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My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.
Author:
Jean-Marie Pen
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Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.
Author:
Charles Peguy
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By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
Author:
John Pearson
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The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
Author:
Jean Paul
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I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.
Author:
Andy Partridge
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For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.
Author:
Robert Parker
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My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.
Author:
Gwyneth Paltrow
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He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.
Author:
Daniel Palmer
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I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
Author:
Joel Osteen
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My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.
Author:
Donny Osmond
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Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.
Author:
Tatum O'Neal
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I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.
Author:
Tatum O'Neal
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The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Author:
Austin O'Malley
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I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.
Author:
Alex O'Loughlin
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I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.
Author:
Gary Oldman
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My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.
Author:
George Olah
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Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
Author:
Roger Oech
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My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.
Author:
Paul Nurse
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In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.
Author:
Trevor Nunn
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My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.
Author:
Douglass North
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I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.
Author:
Greg Norman
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Author:
Anais Nin
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The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
Author:
Anais Nin
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Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!
Author:
Leslie Nielsen
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There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in.
Author:
Leslie Nielsen
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My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
Author:
Simon Newcomb
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I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
Author:
Aaron Neville
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It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
Author:
Kent Nerburn
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And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children.
Author:
David Neeleman
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Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.
Author:
Richard Neal
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And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
Author:
Bruce Nauman
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My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.
Author:
James Nasmyth
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My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.
Author:
Steve Nash
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
Author:
V. Naipaul
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My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.
Author:
Parminder Nagra
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It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'
Author:
Ellen Muth
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What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties they have faced, but the bottom line is this: I believe very strongly children need a mother and a father in the home.
Author:
Timothy Murphy
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Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?
Author:
Max Muller
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I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.
Author:
Jose Mourinho
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My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.
Author:
Lord Mountbatten
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My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
Author:
Constance Motley
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I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'
Author:
Walter Mosley
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My father was an all-American football player.
Author:
Edwin Moses
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My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.
Author:
Edwin Moses
