Father Quotes - Page 19

• It must have been the lack of nutrients that gave my father his temper. He is not a sweet man despite a very sweet tooth.

  Nigel Slater

  Sweet, Men, Teeth

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• You can’t convince me that the Founding Fathers wouldn’t allow you to secede.

  Glenn Beck

  Founding, Convince

  "Glenn Beck Advocates Secession" by Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. April 15, 2009.

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• Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?'

  Dick Cavett

  Sarcastic, Teacher, Stars

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.12, Macmillan

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• By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.

  Dick Cavett

  Phones, Grades, Fourth Grade

  "Television: Dick Cavett: The Art of Show and Tell". content.time.com. June 07, 1971.

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• The real important function of the church is to present the symbol, to perform the rite, to let you behold this divine message in such a way that you are capable of experiencing it. What the relationship of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost to each other might be, in technical terms, is not half important as you, the celebrant, feeling the Virgin Birth within you, the birth of the mystic, mythic being that is your own spiritual life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spiritual, Real, Son

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• If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.

  John C. Maxwell

  Mother, Want, Ifs

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• When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse. The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin' orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.

  Tennessee Williams

  Orchids, Looks, Legs

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• My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.

  Felicity Kendal

  Mother, Jealous, Parent

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• Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

  Felicity Kendal

  Girl, Taken, School

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• Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mother, Pay, Bills

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• I love it. I hate that word (fatherhood), but I love being a father; it's changed everything in so many ways.

  Orlando Bloom

  Hate, Love Is, Way

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• Being a father is the greatest achievement and the most important thing about me. I have two great kids, no question.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Kids, Two, Achievement

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• I want to have young children although my mother and father are even now young sufficient to just take care of them.

  Rita Rudner

  Mother, Children, Care

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• Because I have a passion for the play. My father was a chess teacher, and I learned the play of him as a small child. Occasionally I made another career; but now I have again the possibility of maintaining the passion of my early youth days.

  Carmen Kass

  Teacher, Children, Passion

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• My own father held down two jobs, barely affording the little rented house I grew up in. My dad worked hard, lifted heavy things, and got his hands dirty. The only soap we had at my house was Lava. Heck, I was in college before I found out it wasn't supposed to hurt to take a shower.

  Mike Huckabee

  Hurt, Jobs, Dad

  Mike Huckabee's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota, www.politico.com.

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• Thanks to my father, I didn't have to face the tough side of life. Probably that's why I always chose love over money.

  Sonam Kapoor

  Faces, Sides, Thanks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Children, Struggle, Students

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.32, Wordsworth Editions

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• Don't look for a life virtually free from discomfort, pain, pressure, challenge, or grief, for those are the tools a loving Father uses to stimulate our personal growth and understanding.

  Richard G. Scott

  Pain, Grief, Understanding

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• Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Country, Heaven, Independence

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.22, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• My best and worst boss was the same man - my father. He never - and I mean never - took 'I can't' for an answer. He taught me the value system that, to this day, I have continued to practice.

  George Steinbrenner

  Mean, Men, Practice

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• The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

  Franz Kafka

  Heart, Church, Desert

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• When [our secrets] are sad and hurtful secrets, like my father's death, we can in a way honor the hurt by letting ourselves feel it as we never let ourselves feel it before, and then, having felt it, by laying it aside; we can start to take care of ourselves the way we take care of people we love.

  Frederick Buechner

  Hurt, People, Secret

  Frederick Buechner (1991). “Telling Secrets”, Harper San Francisco

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• I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He's an interior designer and he's really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton.

  Kathleen Robertson

  Sunday, Firsts, Towns

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.

  Greg Kinnear

  Brother, Spring, Moving

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• When we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred.

  Stephen Levine

  Mother, Men, Sacred

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