Father Quotes - Page 35

• Being a father kind of gives you something more to play for.

  Stephen Curry

  Play, Giving, Kind

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I just read about John Le Carre, the great spy novelist. He had an absolutely miserable childhood. His mother deserted him when he was young. His father was a playboy and a drunk. He was shifted around to many different homes. He knew he was a writer when he was about nine, but he was dyslexic. So here was a person with an absolutely messed-up childhood and a symptom that prevented him from doing what he wanted to do most. Yet that very symptom was part of the calling. It forced him to go deeper.

  James Hillman

  Mother, Home, Drunk

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I think I'm a father, but a father of three kids! :)

  John Petrucci

  Kids, Thinking, Three

  Source: www.rockbook.hu

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• My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.

  Michael Gove

  Fishing, Unions, Aberdeen

  "Michael Gove's father denies his company was destroyed by EU policies". Sky News Interview, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2016.

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• I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.

  Andrew Solomon

  Thinking, Tradition, Grew Up

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting the church as a perfect thing.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Mother, Perfect

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"

  Matthea Harvey

  People, Different, Might

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Powerful, Men, Vision

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified our lives forever.

  Ted Nugent

  Real, Rock And Roll, Rocks

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life.

  James Pearse Connelly

  Mother, Teacher, Art

  "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.

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• Mexican style of boxing training is different from what my father had trained me. It was good for me because it was an added knowledge, an addition to my boxing IQ.

  Tomoki Kameda

  Boxing, Mexican, Style

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, War, Home

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I had a big family - two older sisters and a younger brother. My family was like moving around a lot so I lived in a lot of small towns. My father was very restless.

  Jessica Lange

  Brother, Moving, Two

  "New Again: Jessica Lange". Interview with Bob Colacello, Andy Warhol, Robert Hayes, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.

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• The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.

  Jessica Lange

  Mother, Childhood, Said

  "New Again: Jessica Lange". Interview with Bob Colacello, Andy Warhol, Robert Hayes, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.

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• I have two definitions of success - one on the basketball court and one in my personal life. In basketball, success means making my teammates better, winning basketball games and winning championships. In my personal life, success means being a good father to my sons and raising them to be strong men; taking care of my family and being a good friend; and using my influence to make a difference in the community.

  Dwyane Wade

  Basketball, Strong, Mean

  Source: mochamanstyle.com

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• All around the country, individuals are choosing to redefine their lives and the pursuit of happiness in ways much closer to the original notion put forth by our Founding Fathers. Their notion of the "pursuit of happiness" wasn't just about acquiring money and power, but about doing your part to add to the civic happiness of the community.

  Arianna Huffington

  Country, Pursuit Of Happiness, Community

  "Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success, Creating Balance and Making Good Decisions". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think we all have something in our life's experience that makes us feel different. It's whether we have a gay parent or we have an alcoholic mother or maybe we don't know our father. And it's something that we feel bad about initially because we think we're abnormal. What's abnormal is our assumption that there's something called 'normal.'

  Amy Richards

  Mother, Gay, Thinking

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• I was raised in a family where my father was the first one to go to college.

  Jim Gaffigan

  College, Firsts, Raised

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that that could be someone's father or someone's mother and they have a story.

  Syesha Mercado

  Mother, Stories, Remember

  "American Idol’s Syesha Mercado: On Honesty, Acceptance, and Being Present". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think it's sensible to plan for the future now I'm a father and a husband.

  Andy Murray

  Husband, Thinking, Sensible

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.

  Harry Hay

  Brother, Son, Men

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• So I went home and I told my mom that I wanted to quit and be an actress and she said, “Huh, that sounds fascinating. It’s wonderful!” And I told my father and he literally said, “I don’t care if you want to be an elephant trainer if it makes you happy.”

  Gena Rowlands

  Mom, Home, Elephants

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.

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• In the Apostolic Exhortation 'Amoris Laetitia,' Pope Francis speaks only in one point about homosexual tendencies. As did the last synod, the Holy Father speaks about the question of how to handle the situation when, in the family, a member of the family discovers him or herself having a homosexual tendency.

  Christoph Schonborn

  Lasts, Speak, Pope

  "Cardinal Schonborn on 'Amoris Laetitia': Pope Francis Knows What He Is Talking About". Interview with Deborah Castellano Lubov, zenit.org. April 12, 2016.

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• [The founding fathers] believed that freedom of expression included religious views and beliefs, so long as the government did not force people to worship in a particular matter and remain neutral on what those views and beliefs were.

  John Cornyn

  Religious, Views, Expression

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• You can look at founding father Alexander Hamilton nevertheless assuring - assuring - the countrymen in Federalist 78 that the role of the federal courts under the proposed Constitution would be limited.

  Sam Brownback

  Roles, Looks, Would Be

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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