Father Quotes - Page 40

• All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola - a wind-up record player - and my grandfather's crystal radio, and my father's shortwave radio.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Player, Wind, Crystals

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• In the past members of my family on both my mother's and father's side have fought in the war, in the first and second World Wars. Unfortunately, they're dead and I wasn't able to speak to them, but that was in our family history too.

  PJ Harvey

  Mother, War, Past

  Source: www.wfuv.org

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• In my father's time - he was in college during many transitions in the late 1930s - they had great institutional loyalties... to his college, eventually the navy, the Democratic Party and certain ideals of our country. Those are the things that became broken with my generation.

  Whit Stillman

  Loyalty, Country, Party

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

  Cary Elwes

  Real, Kids, Portraits

  "Cary Elwes: Battle Of Wits". "Ask Me Another" with Ophira Eisenberg, www.npr.org. November 18, 2016.

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• I grew up in this Southern Baptist atmosphere, and my mother and father were both, I guess you would say, academics. They were both teachers.

  Warren Beatty

  Mother, Teacher, Southern

  "Warren Beatty's Homage To Howard Hughes Opens In Theaters On Wednesday". "All Things Considered" with Renee Montagne, kvcrnews.org. November 22, 2016.

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• My brother became so enamored with that film [West Side Story], that he started taking tap-dancing lessons, and I followed him and started tap dancing, and my mother and father started tap dancing - I was in a class with my family, tap dancing!

  Marisa Tomei

  Mother, Brother, Class

  Source: www.scene-stealers.com

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• My parents were into 40s big band stuff, and my father was a great dancer to that kind of thing. But rock 'n' roll? No. I wanted a guitar, but my mother didn't really want me to have one. At some point I played a violin, but I didn't last long at that.

  Mark Alan Stamaty

  Mother, Rocks, Guitar

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I grew up having great awareness of who I was in regards to racial identity and socio-economic status. This caused me great frustration until I was about 19 years old at Tuskegee University. My brother became a Christian along with my father and they shared the Gospel with me on occasion.

  Sho Baraka

  Christian, Brother, Frustration

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• My son plays football so I coach a couple of his teams. My youngest son just started playing last year and I assistant coached for one of his teams. I try to be there as much as I can. I also want to kill the stereotype. I want them to respect me as a man and a father first and then if you like hip hop go buy my album.

  Rakim

  Football, Couple, Team

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• I don't think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism. And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society - the kind of mistreatment society gave him.

  Ai Weiwei

  Independent, Thinking, Kind

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life.

  Domenico Gnoli

  Art, Things In Life, Knowing

  Source: observer.com

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• The one real irritant is that my young children - they also adapt. They adapt to being without their father. That's a hard, hard adaption which they didn't ask for. I worry about them; I worry about their mother.

  Julian Assange

  Mother, Children, Real

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• When I heard him speak at the DNC [in 2004] I started supporting him. Then I endorsed him on the anniversary of my father's assassination this year. So I am a diehard [Barack] Obama supporter.

  Malaak Shabazz

  Obama Supporters, Years, Speak

  Source: maxblumenthal.com

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• Looking at the Obamas, it's like my father and my mother 43 years later. It was the same old rock star thing, and I think Barack is continuing what my father did with true consciousness, true ability, and a global view.

  Malaak Shabazz

  Mother, Stars, Thinking

  Source: maxblumenthal.com

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• Michelle and Barack [Obama] epitomize what my father set the stage for - they epitomize global community organizing. I'm a global child, I was raised a global child, and he's a global child.

  Malaak Shabazz

  Children, Community, Stage

  Source: maxblumenthal.com

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• I look at Barack [Obama], he's slim like my father, and Michelle's [Obama] full figured like my mother. And I just love it.

  Malaak Shabazz

  Mother, Looks, Slim

  Source: maxblumenthal.com

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• We're Democrats [with my father]. So, of course he would [support me]. Absolutely.

  Malaak Shabazz

  Support, Democrat, Courses

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• [Barack Obama] and Michelle, in my heart, this is my personal feeling, epitomize what my mother and my father were. They are community organizers on a global level.

  Malaak Shabazz

  Mother, Heart, Community

  Source: maxblumenthal.com

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• [My father] was not a racist, unlike what the white racist media would say. He had a global outlook just like Barack [Obama] and Michelle [Obama].

  Malaak Shabazz

  Media, White, Racist

  Source: maxblumenthal.com

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• My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.

  Malaak Shabazz

  Rights, Racist, Way

  Source: maxblumenthal.com

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• These Negroes who go for integration and intermarriage are linking up with the very people who lynched their fathers, raped their mothers, and put their kid sisters in the kitchen to scrub floors.

  Malcolm X

  Mother, Kids, People

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents.

  Paul Kengor

  President, American History, Founding

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• [Steven Sebring] presence was also nice for my children, who, having just lost their father, quite naturally craved warm male attention. They gravitated to him right away.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Nice, Males

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For me, I learned from my father that when it's over, it's over.

  George W. Bush

  Over It

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• [My father] taught me (at least he showed me) a dignified way to be a former president is that once you're off the stage, you're off the stage.

  George W. Bush

  President, Way, Taught

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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