Father Quotes - Page 25

• In my entire life growing up I've never heard my dad say an unkind word about anyone. My father has always taken the high road in life and to me he's a complete inspiration without being a pushover.

  Hugh Panaro

  Growing Up, Dad, Taken

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2008.

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• I feel like that's a way people can change the way music is - to be guided by someone they believe in and trust. Larson and I really believed in each other. It was like brother/sister, father/daughter, we were laughing and yelling, that's how it is when you make an album! Essentially the trust was there and I got something great.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Daughter, Brother, Believe

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I've wanted to work with my father for 30 years, and I'm really grateful that I finally had the opportunity, and it ended up - the experience and, I believe, the film - better than I could ever have hoped for.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Grateful, Believe, Opportunity

  "Kiefer Sutherland on finally playing Donald's son and destroying the first '24' action figure". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2016.

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• I remember, in elementary school, being asked what my father does and not knowing how to answer. When I asked my mom what I should say next time, she replied, "Just say he's self-employed." I love that.

  Yoshi Wada

  Mom, School, Self

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You get to a certain age and it really occurs to you: "My mother and my father will not always be here. My spouse or my girlfriend or boyfriend are here right now, but someday they won't be." You realize that you need to like yourself.

  Angel Olsen

  Mother, Girlfriend, Age

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm sure as an infant, no matter what I looked like, I felt like the most loved kid getting those massages. So I really think that was a big part of my growing and my brain developing. Most of all however, I think it was the love that was given to me unconditionally and I felt that my whole life. It certainly wasn't that my parents always liked what I was doing, even my becoming a doctor, my father preferred I went into business so he could help me, but I wanted to be a doctor.

  Bernie Siegel

  Kids, Thinking, Doctors

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don't know why their father won't spend more time with them.

  Bernie Siegel

  Kids, Car, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15.

  Johnny Marr

  Jobs, Class, House

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Love Is, Thinking, Company

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I felt that people would criticize everything. I was so scared about playing Paris. I was very much aware that the greatest concerts my father and mother had done were there. I was sure people would be very tough.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Mother, Paris, People

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• It's difficult for me to write in English as it's not my first language, but French is even worse because of my father's influence and because the comparisons that I - not even other people - would make.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Writing, People, Firsts

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• When I was going through the stuff with my dad and thinking about terms like restraining order and domestic violence, I was really just searching for a way to define what I was going through. I didn't really understand what it meant to disown a parent or not want to have a parent in your life. Even the word parent was confusing to me because my father came into my life so late in my teen years.

  Chelsea Martin

  Dad, Thinking, Parent

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• Fathers and mothers are just people, which means they make mistakes. Don't hold that against them. Whatever flaws they may have, they created you in a moment of love, and are among the few who knew you when. When they're gone, there won't be anyone to take their place.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Mother, Mistake, Mean

  Ernest Borgnine (2009). “Ernie: The Autobiography”, p.296, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• I remember on Thanksgiving all the kids wanted the drumstick. There were four of us then. Well, today you can go into the supermarket and get 12 drumsticks. Years ago you couldn't do that. So I was sucking on the neck for two years. My mother told me it was the leg, and I believed it. I went to my father and said, Why is my leg always cockeyed? He said, The bird has arthritis.

  Pat Cooper

  Mother, Kids, Years

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• I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent... I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

  Ronan Farrow

  Children, Insult, My Family

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• Thomas Jefferson understood the greater purpose of the liberty that our Founding Fathers sought during the creation of our Nation. Although it was against the British that the colonists fought for political rights, the true source of the rights of man was clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson wrote that all humans are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights . . . . It was self-evident to him that denying these rights was wrong and that he and others must struggle to win what was theirs.

  William J. Clinton

  Struggle, Winning, Men

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• With confidence we testify that the Atonement of Jesus Christ has anticipated and, in the end, will compensate all deprivation and loss for those who turn to Him. No one is predestined to receive less than all that the Father has for His children.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Jesus, Children, Loss

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• If Jesus Christ were to sit down with us and ask for an accounting of our stewardship, I am not sure He would focus much on programs and statistics. What the Savior would want to know is the condition of our heart. He would want to know how we love and minister to those in our care, how we show our love to our spouse and family, and how we lighten their daily load. And the Savior would want to know how you and I grow closer to Him and to our Heavenly Father.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Heart, Focus

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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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• Our Father, here I am, at your disposal, your child, to use me to continue your loving the world, by giving Jesus to me and through me, to each other that we allow Jesus to love in us and through us with the love with which His Father loves him.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Children, Here I Am

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• The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, People, Purpose

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.3, Humanix Books

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• While the foods were being prepared, I watched as men dragged a foot-operated grinding wheel into an open space, and the groom devoted a tense hour to putting a razor's edge to a large, ornate dagger. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Girl, Eye, Men

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.620, Macmillan

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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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• Our salvation is not in some father or human instruments. It is sad to see people so blinded, worshiping the creature more than the Creator.

  William J. Seymour

  People, Salvation, Instruments

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• I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that.

  Christopher Walken

  Uncles, Play, People

  "Christopher Walken: 'I'm a regular guy'". Interview with Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2013.

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