Father Quotes - Page 20

• Most of what I learned about baseball came from great coaches, beginning with my father, then Bob [Buchelle], when I`d made it into the seated row of Little League in [Dorchester], then Dan Burke, [John Balfe], the great Henry Lane.

  Donald Trump

  Baseball, League, Bob

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father - of men as men, in other words.

  Dennis Prager

  Husband, Lying, Men

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• The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine.

  Terry Pratchett

  Jesus, Community, Woods

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• 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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• 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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• My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

  Neil Oliver

  Self, Luck, Taught

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The marquee scrolling across our minds trying to reinterpret life reads: "God-Against-Us." This becomes the dominant lens through which our flesh interprets life. We no longer give our loving Father the benefit of the doubt. Instead, we view every event as conclusive proof that God is against us.

  James MacDonald

  Views, Giving, Doubt

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• Undoubtedly our Heavenly Father tires of expressions of love in words only. He has made it clear through his prophets and his word that his ways are ways of commitment, and not conversation. He prefers performance over lip service. We show our true love for him in proportion to our keeping his words.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Commitment, Expression, Way

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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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• My father was a self-employed, commission-only salesman. He sold double-glazing and fitted kitchens, amongst other things. As he never declared himself unemployed, there was never recourse to benefits, so if money was tight, money was tight. It taught me that we were a closed unit, and that we had to be resourceful.

  Neil Oliver

  Self, Kitchen, Taught

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.

  Dolly Parton

  Brother, Uncles, Men

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• Singularity theory is something that I do believe will come to pass, sooner or later, although whether or not in our lifetime I don't know, and I'm not sitting around waiting for my father to be resurrected. Readers probably have the impression from the book that I'm a lot more a of a techno kook than I actually am. It became a convenient fulcrum in the story, sort of a kaleidoscope through which to address religious and spiritual questions.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Spiritual, Religious, Believe

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.

  Etgar Keret

  Hurt, War, Achievement

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my autobiography.

  Kola Boof

  Children, Sibling, Real

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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