Father Quotes - Page 28

• Years later, when I asked my father, I said 'Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?' he said, son, you plum wore me out.

  Charles Koch

  Brother, Son, Years

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• My father told me "If you choose to let this money destroy your initiative and independence, then it will be a curse to you and my action in giving it to you will have been a mistake. I shall regret very much to have you miss the glorious feeling of accomplishment. Remember that often adversity is a blessing in disguise and is certainly the greatest character builder."

  Charles Koch

  Regret, Mistake, Character

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Rights, Light

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music.

  William Shatner

  Writing, Symphony, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I feel very fortunate for audiences to have been so gracious as to allow me to do pretty much any role that I felt I could do. They let me play a president. They let me play a lawyer. They let me play a hit man. They let me play a father. They let me play Howard Saint.

  John Travolta

  Men, Play, President

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• My parents had a sidewalk cafe: every Sunday there was an accordion player and apparently I went through the motions, squeezing a shoebox. One of the regulars in 'the cafe said to my father: "I think you should get your son an accordion-that's what he's trying to do, with that shoebox." So they got me a little cardboard diatonic accordion-I still have it. I started to play the National Anthem, and things like that. It seems I was musically gifted-but my parents just never pushed in that direction.

  Toots Thielemans

  Son, Sunday, Player

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• Our father taught us how to play. He's also our biggest inspiration and he opened our ears to a lot of older music, like Richie Valens, Chuck Berry, Willie Nelson, and Fats Domino.

  Henry Garza

  Inspiration, Taught Us, Play

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• My father did not bother that I play not a classical music. He always congratulated me for my development in music, I mean in any music but, he hang on to continue training at the Academy of Music... however, I never mentioned to my teachers that I trained myself at weekends in clubs.

  Richard Clayderman

  Teacher, Mean, Weekend

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• Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil rights. She sang with Pete Seeger among others. My father was an Actor.

  Vicki Sue Robinson

  Mother, Rights, Political

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• I've been involved with law enforcement for some time. My father was in law enforcement. I went through the training for Homeland Security. I enjoy it very much.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Law, Training, Enforcement

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• Michael Jackson has a new baby boy; no word yet who the father is.

  Jay Leno

  Baby, Boys, Baby Boy

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• My mother really was an extraordinary, inspirational, tough, cool, sexy, funny woman and that's the kind of woman I've always surrounded myself with. It's my friends, particularly my wife, who is not only smarter than and stronger than I am but, occasionally taller too. I think it all goes back to my mother. My father and my stepfather prized whit and resolve in the women they were with above all things. And they were among the rare men who understood that recognising somebody else's power does not diminish your own.

  Joss Whedon

  Sexy, Mother, Men

  Joss Whedon's acceptance speech at the Equality Now Award, www.americanrhetoric.com. May 15, 2006.

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• People say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like that." My grandmother looked at my father with the same eyes when he was sixty and she was eighty-five.

  Grace Paley

  Kids, Eye, Grandmother

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• I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Country, Grew Up, Wanted

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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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• A father doesn't say, 'Don't go that way.' He says, 'ome follow me.'

  Judah Smith

  Way, Follow Me

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• The Warren Court wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution... I intend to succeed where they failed.

  Barack Obama

  Succeed, Essentials, Constitution

  "The Gipper vs. Obama" by Roger Kimball, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 15, 2009.

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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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• My father was all brain and little heart.

  Stephen Fry

  Heart, Brain, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Son, Conviction

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.88, Friederich Nietzsche

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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 very big on marriage.

  Sidney Poitier

  Bigs

  "The leading man" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2000.

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• It is the Happiness of his Church that, when the Powers of Earth and Hell combine against it...that the Throne of Grace is of the easiest access-and its Appeal thither is graciously invited by the Father of Mercies, who has assured it, that when his Children ask Bread he will not give them a Stone.

  John Hancock

  Children, Giving, Grace

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• I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Brother, Wife

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.22, Coyote Canyon Press

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• The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it.

  Steve Farrar

  Distance, Trying, Overcoming

  Steve Farrar (2009). “Point Man: How a Man Can Lead His Family”, p.47, Multnomah

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