Father Quotes - Page 38

• My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Mother, Texas, African American

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• [My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Growing Up, Parent, Born

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• There is a tradition of "modernist" theology arising out of post-Kantian thought - Fichte was the real father of it, but Schleiermacher and others also developed it - which might have more promise if it had greater influence on popular religion.

  Allen W. Wood

  Real, Promise, Might

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.

  Ted Cruz

  People, Wife, Habit

  ""This Week" Transcript: Live from Philadelphia Democratic National Convention". "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. July 24, 2016.

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• [Donald Trump] spreading preposterous rumors that [Ted] Cruz`s father had connections to Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of JFK. That put a bit of a damper on the bromance ultimately culminating in Cruz`s epic non-endorsement at the Republican convention.

  Chris Hayes

  Epic, Rumor, Connections

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Boys, Two, Stories

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• I can only say that I'm certainly relieved that my late father never did business with Donald Trump. He provided a good middle-class life for us, but the people he worked for, he expected the bargain to be kept on both sides.

  Hillary Clinton

  Class, People, Sides

  "Trump vs. Clinton: Full Transcript Of First Presidential Debate 2016". www.ibtimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I have a different experience. My father was a small-businessman. He worked really hard. He printed drapery fabrics on long tables, where he pulled out those fabrics and he went down with a silkscreen and dumped the paint in and took the squeegee and kept going.

  Hillary Clinton

  Different Experiences, Long, Fabric

  Transcript: First presidential debate at Hofstra University, www.cbsnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• How could it be that I had a legal obligation to kill people I did not know, and who did certainly not consent to it, while my father's doctor could not help my father to die when my farther asked for it? My consternation brought me to moral philosophy and a life-long search for an answer to the question when and why we should, and when we shouldn't, kill.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Philosophy, Doctors, Long

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• My father was very strict, but mostly I just didn't know how to behave on a date.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Strict, Behave, Know How

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

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• My father loved to complain about big business and big government, but we had a solid middle class upbringing. We had good public schools. We had accessible health care. We had our little, you know, one-family house that, you know, he saved up his money, didn't believe in mortgages.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, School, Government

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I was just talking to Benedict [Cumberbatch] who's got a little baby and knows his father lives in his phone. We as humans are evolving really fast, so everyday we're hit with that.

  Tilda Swinton

  Baby, Phones, Talking

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• My mother, father and brothers (I was the youngest of three boys), were all very sarcastic and we were a complete Irish-Catholic family. We didn't talk about our feelings ever, and if we did, we were yelling about them - there was no in-between. That's just carried over so many ways in my life and sabotaged relationships, sabotaged creative stuff.

  Anthony Green

  Sarcastic, Mother, Brother

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• As a female in a home with a whole bunch of brothers and being very close to my father, without a mother and later having a hostile relationship with my stepmother, there were all kinds of Freudian issues rising from possessing a female body that I had to negotiate with no guidance, and I did this negotiation almost instinctually.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Mother, Brother, Home

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• My father had no sons, so I became queen. The only thing I had to do was perform the role.

  Margrethe II of Denmark

  Queens, Son, Roles

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think God gives us all that in his Word because he's a loving Father.

  Jennifer Rothschild

  Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Loving fathers give their children guidance on how to deal with all the hard things in life.

  Jennifer Rothschild

  Children, Things In Life, Giving

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Loving fathers give their children boundaries so they won't get hurt and can live with peace and purpose.

  Jennifer Rothschild

  Hurt, Children, Giving

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Israel is imperfect, of course it is - a far cry from the monumental dreams of the founding fathers. One of the reasons is that their dreams were unrealistic. They were bigger than life. These were messianic dreams, dreams about total redemption for the Jews, for the world. Such dreams do not come true, not in their entirety.

  Amos Oz

  Dream, Israel, Redemption

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good man by their similarity of morals than the son is to his father by their similarity of face.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Son, Men, Blood

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• The book[ The Thorn and The Blossom] is a love story about two people, Brendan and Evelyn, who meet in a small town in Cornwall where Evelyn has gone on vacation and Brendan is working in his father's bookstore. The story is told from both perspectives, Brendan's and Evelyn's.

  Theodora Goss

  Book, Vacation, Two

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Fleas, Flea Markets, Related

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• I changed up everything around me. I hold myself more accountable in certain situations. I try to be a better man, a better father, a better teammate.

  Dwight Howard

  Men, Trying, Teammate

  Source: espn.go.com

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• When I talk to [my kids], I remember my father talking to me, so it's understandable that I would make a film like "Aquarius." A very good friend of mine saw the film, and she said it was clear that it had been made by someone who had just become a father.

  Sonia Braga

  Kids, Good Friend, Talking

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I have just as much right to stay in America - in fact, the black people have contributed more to America than any other race, because our kids have fought here for what was called "democracy"; our mothers and fathers were sold and bought here for a price. So all I can say when they say "go back to Africa," I say "when you send the Chinese back to China, the Italians back to Italy, etc., and you get on that Mayflower from whence you came, and give the Indians their land back, who really would be here at home?"

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Mother, Home, Kids

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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