Real Father Quotes

• It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

  Pope John XXIII

  Fathers Day, Children, Dad

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• Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence

  Tara Fela-Durotoye

  Father, Real, Role Models

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• My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

  Lee Iacocca

  Friendship, Cute, Relationship

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.137, Bantam

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• All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye.

  Margaret Atwood

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• My heart is hurting so bad no one can make me believe this is real Father God I pray that you send clarity over this cause I just don't understand My heart hurts it's broken no one can convince me that this is real.... Prayer warriors please pray real hard for his only child, his daughter and family.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Daughter, Hurt, Prayer

  FaceBook post by Tyrese Gibson from Dec 01, 2013

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• My mom and my real father divorced before I was one. My mom and my stepfather divorced when I was in high school. Then she fell in love with a guy, and the guy died. That was a rough time. She has handled adversity well. That's where I got my work ethic. So my mother's where I got my love of music, but my father's where I got my athletic ability. And my hair loss. And my love of women.

  Kenny Chesney

  Mom, Mother, Real

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• He is likely to remain the one historian of the Sierra; he imported into his view the imagination of the poet and the reverence of the worshipper.... William Kent, during Muir’s life, paid him a rare tribute in giving to the nation a park of redwoods with the understanding that it should be named Muir Woods. But the nation owes him more. His work was not sectional but for the whole people, for he was the real father of the forest reservations of America.

  Robert Underwood Johnson

  Father, Real, America

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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

  Father, Real, Kids

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

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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

  Father, Real, Promise

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the ones that we were interested in.

  John Petrucci

  Father, Real, Play

  Source: www.rockbook.hu

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• I've never known my real father, and I've never looked for a father figure in a boyfriend, but I suppose I have looked for real father figures in my life - and I've acquired more than one. I certainly couldn't ask for better ones. I love them enormously - and they know that.

  Naomi Campbell

  Father, Real, Figures

  Interview with Tony Shafrazi, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2010.

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• When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.

  Allegra Huston

  Father, Real, Firsts

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• People around me die. They drop like flies. I've gone through life leaving a trail of dead bodies behind me. My mother is dead, my guardian is dead, my aunt is dead—because I killed her, and when my real father finds me, he'll move heaven and earth to make me dead.

  Ilona Andrews

  Mother, Father, Real

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• Any man can help make a child, but it takes a special man to help raise a child. He must be selfless. He must be responsible. He must be reliable. He must be a role model. Happy Father's Day to the men who are being real fathers.

  Tony Gaskins

  Children, Father, Real

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• First of all, we have exactly the opposite type of audiences, for obvious reasons. So the competition is not going to be between the movies. I wish Dakota the best, not only because of this movie. I know the expectations of these movies are enormous but we know-every member of the family, brother, sister, real father-that she's a good actress.”

  Antonio Banderas

  Brother, Father, Real

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• OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.

  Linus Torvalds

  Father, Real, Men

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• As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

  Christine Keeler

  Girl, Horse, Real

  "The lady's not a tramp". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2001.

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• My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.

  Donald Johanson

  Father, Real, Two Year Olds

  "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• We were both sort of bowled over by the fact that we were married. It wasn't a question of 'Have we done the right thing?' It was all perfectly natural that we should be together. But John didn't get a real chance to be first a real husband or later, a real father. Once he got on the Beatles bangwagon he couldn't get off, even if he wanted to.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Husband, Father, Real

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• Don't worry, Even Jesus never saw his real father

  J. Cole

  Jesus, Father, Real

  Song: 2Faces, Album: Friday Night Lights, 2010

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• You belong to the biblical race of Nephilim. Your real father was an angel who fell from heaven. You're half mortal." The boy's dark eyes lifted, meeting Chauncey's. "Half fallen angel." Chauncey's tutor's voice drifted up from the recesses of his mind, reading passages from the Bible, telling of a deviant race created when angels cast from heaven mated with mortal women. A fearsome and powerful race. A chill that wasn't entirely revulsion crept through Chauncey. "Who are you?

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Powerful, Father, Real

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2009). “Hush, Hush”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Father, Real, Two

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