Father Quotes - Page 18

• I love my kids, I'm a proud father, a happy husband, and all of that. I live my life with my wife as a normal person, and that's that.

  Kevin Federline

  Husband, Kids, Wife

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• If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through the windows, the curtains drawn aside,we see the family about the pleasant hearth; the old lady knitting; the cat playing with the yarn;the children wishing they had as many dolls or dollars or knivesor somethings, as there are sparks going out to join the roaring blast;the father reading and smoking, and the clouds rising like incense from the altar of domestic joy.I never passed such a house without feeling thatI had received a benediction.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Reading, Cat

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.220, Library of Alexandria

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• There is the need for an intimate romantic relationship with the father. Abundant joy and an intimate personal receiving of God's love should be our priority because you can never get enough of this, people return again and again to swim in the river or soak in the son.

  John Arnott

  Son, Rivers, People

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• It is a fascinating fact that father and son have given the most striking evidence for the apparently contradictory properties of the electron: the father proving its character as a particle, the son its character as a wave... Thomson was extremely proud of his son's success and tried to assimilate the new results into his old convictions.

  Max Born

  Character, Son, Proud

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• The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.

  John Irving

  Firsts, Bears, Illusion

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• I think that I learned music. And also you learn recommendations that you can use in your life. When you travel, you all the time remember what your mother teach you. You know in the African family the mother has a big role to play because the father is outside in the fields or going to work.

  Baaba Maal

  Mother, Thinking, Play

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• My father Lloyd Bridges was very versatile in his parts, but he had a hit in the '60s 'Sea Hunt,' where he played a skin diver. And he was so into that role that people actually thought he was a skin-diver.

  Jeff Bridges

  Sea, Bridges, People

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. January 13, 2010.

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• I know it was a gift from God. My father was a preacher and my mother worked in churches all her life. My father had a very deep bass sounding voice and my mother had an in-between soprano voice. Not great singers, but they had great tones to their voices. I think that had a lot to do with it. Also, I really believe my voice was a gift from God. I believe if you take care of it, He will help you take care of it.

  Darlene Love

  Mother, Believe, Thinking

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• When I was growing up, I grew up in church--my father was a pastor--so when I was growing up in Trinidad, I'd close all the windows in the church and go in the church every day after school and get a little microphone and pretend all these people were in the pews, and I would sing to them.

  Heather Headley

  Growing Up, School, People

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• My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was a concert master, he took me to a lot of rehearsals, concerts, performances, opera, ballet. For me, that was life.

  Lalo Schifrin

  Mother, Uncles, Aunt

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• Two of the great leaders of the past - Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass - had White fathers - who deserted them. Now Margo Jefferson, who is hard on me and the fellas, wrote in the Times that she has nocturnal, erotic fantasies about John Wayne. What's up with these feminists? Do you see these double standards these feminists have? They dream about John Wayne, but they're hard on us [Black men].

  Ishmael Reed

  Dream, Past, Men

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Coalition [against ISIS] need the tools. And the tools involve encryption where we cannot hear what they're even planning. And when we see red flags, a father, a mother, a neighbor who says we have got a problem here, then we have to give law enforcement the ability to listen so they can disrupt these terrorist attacks before they occur.

  John Kasich

  Mother, Isis, Law

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• The best predictor of a woman's involvement in terrorism, whether it's a secular or religious group, is a relationship with a terrorist: her father, brother, husband or even her son. Terrorism becomes a bit of a family business.

  Mia Bloom

  Religious, Brother, Husband

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• People who've never gone hunting have a tendency to look down on hunters and act like they're out killing Bambi's father.

  Patty Hearst

  Hunting, People, Hunters

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• Whether that expansion is towards the beings around you or flora, fauna, and creatures. Love has so many unique yet consistent forms. People like Branson - he's an idea guru. Guys like Allan Savory - he's like Father Earth. Allan has literally discovered how to stop desertification and make Africa come alive with plant life. In each of its forms, love has an infinite scope of potential expansion, all of which I see leading to growth.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Unique, Plant Life, Ideas

  "Ian Somerhalder, ‘The Vampire Diaries’ Actor, Talks Love, Social Media And Social Change With Origin Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2013.

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• Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis - it is protective, it takes care of you. That's what cultures are for. You cannot rob a people of language, culture, mother, father, the value of their labor - all of that - without doing vast damage to those people.

  Randall Robinson

  Mother, Strong, Order

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• My father had a phase of having jukeboxes all over the house. He was a music lover but he was also into musical machinery. Not instruments, he was never interested in playing particularly but there would be these odd objects, like valve amplifiers being dismantled on the kitchen table. My mum wasn't massively keen on that, but it was part of the environment.

  Squarepusher

  House, Kitchen, Musical

  Source: thequietus.com

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• My father used to take off his belt and give me a crack. And I'm all right.

  Sean Hannity

  Giving, Cracks, Used

  "Jail Time for Parents Who Spank?!". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. January 23, 2007.

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• My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.

  Michael Caine

  Stuff, Causes, Stealing

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• You're not going to have the police force representing the black and brown community, if they've spent the last 30 years busting every son and daughter and father and mother for every piddling drug offense that they've ever done, thus creating a mistrust in the community. But at the same time, you should be able to talk about abuses of power, and you should be able to talk about police brutality and what, in some cases, is as far as I'm concerned, outright murder and outright loss of justice without the police organization targeting you in the way that they have done me.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Daughter, Mother, Loss

  Source: collider.com

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• Both my parents were a tremendous influence on me. My father's influence came from - he decided well, probably before we were born that as he put it, 'I'm not going to have any kids who are country club bums.'

  Charles Koch

  Country, Kids, Parent

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• My father wanted to instill the work ethic. And, because he knew if you don't learn to work to be more productive to improve your efficiency, to cooperate with other people at an early age, you may never learn those habits.

  Charles Koch

  People, Work Ethic, Age

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• My mother and father took me in and provided everything for me - the love, nurturing, basic necessities - to give me the space to grow wings, so that when I went out into the world, I could fly.

  Michael Franti

  Mother, Wings, Space

  "Michael Franti | Rocker. Chart Topper. Humanitarian. Bad Ass. Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It was hard for me, as a father, to imagine going through what my birth mom went through, to raise a child inside of her for nine months, and then have to say goodbye. And so it's hard for me to understand that pain and that process.

  Michael Franti

  Mom, Goodbye, Children

  "Michael Franti | Rocker. Chart Topper. Humanitarian. Bad Ass. Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I enjoyed being what I was in radio, which some thought of as a shock jock although, to this day, I still can't figure out what I've done that's so shocking. As to my favorite interviews, I loved having my mother and father on. I also enjoyed talking to Elmo, who's a puppet. I found T.I.'s trying to be extra-cool very endearing. Tyra Banks was not the diva I expected her to be. I loved talking to her. And Simon Cowell is a really nice guy. Yeah! He's my fave, and he's handsome.

  Wendy Williams

  Mother, Nice, Talking

  Source: aalbc.com

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