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My father-in-law ... was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death. — Billy Graham

I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends. — Ivanka Trump

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children. — Johann Hari

As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased. — George Steinbrenner

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

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband. — Pamela Anderson

I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend. — Dante Hall

It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther. — Richard L. Evans

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them. — Henry David Thoreau

Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator. — Anthony Kiedis

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad. — Beau Bridges

My father went to Rutgers, and I grew up in New Jersey, so I'm a great Rutgers fan. I have season tickets. — Peter Eisenman

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel. — Anne Waldman

I always knew I wanted a great man of God, someone who was going to be an inspiration for people and also be a lovely husband and father. — Katy Perry

Working with my father [Stephen Hawking ] is a great thrill - he has the amazing ability to hold enormous amounts of information in his head. — Stephen Hawking

The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation. — Ronald Reagan

Our Father who art in nature ... must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. — John Steinbeck

My father has a great love of science, and he indoctrinated me into it early. I think I was 12 or so when we designed a moon base. — Andy Weir

My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays. — Noam Chomsky

To be right with God the judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is a greater. — J.I. Packer

I have a great pic of my father and Rev. Graham laughing hysterically at some joke with George Pratt Shultz looking on back in 1972 or so. — Ben Stein

The heavenly Father is a great Healer. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening. — Zoe Wanamaker

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

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy. — Nelson Mandela

He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex. — Sarah Ferguson

Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything. — Stacey Lee

My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918. — James Rainwater

I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great broadcaster. — Jonathan Dimbleby

I had a great family. My father was in the Air Force, so we were always disciplined, goal oriented. — Thomas Jones

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read. — Michael Foot

what great love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! (1 John 3:1) — Stephen A. Gammon

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer. — Imogen Cunningham

Work is a great thing. This is something my father taught me. He didn't want me to grow up to be somebody's wife. — Giovanna Cau

Behind every great man is a man greater, his father. — Habeeb Akande

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted. — Dan Rather

I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father. — Tyler Perry

Peace is a new father
Searching for a job
With courage and vigor
With a smile and rigor
But with a great need for money. — Debasish Mridha

Call me a sucker for a man who had a great ass who knows how to bake a macaroni casserole and can tolerate six hours of Sesame Street a day. — Seanan McGuire

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too. — Harlan Coben

My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well. — Dorothy Hamill

I said with great dignosity, Father, I am afraid I can't discuss my private life with you as I have a date with Lord of the Flies. — Louise Rennison

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate. — Bernard Williams

A great White Bear waits outside. He has faithfully promised to make us all rich if he can but have our youngest daughter. — Peter Christen Asbjornsen

My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather. — Claire Denis

I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me. — Augustine Of Hippo

I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride. — Ed Koch

If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life. — Apolo Ohno

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father. — Angelina Jolie

The search for knowledge and the discovery of a great weapon are virtually one and the same. War is the father of everything. — Paul Hoffman

Being a father is the greatest achievement and the most important thing about me. I have two great kids, no question. — Ryan Phillippe

Real Womanhood isn't a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father. — Ann Voskamp

I'd love to have a great relationship with my father. And unfortunately ... I don't. — Angelina Jolie

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration. — James E. Faust

We had a great time on the bench talking about crime, mother-stabbin', father raping, all kinds of groovy things. — Arlo Guthrie

Our journey was to be a great enterprise of balance. My father, of course, was bringing the Word of God - which fortunately weighs nothing at all. — Barbara Kingsolver

A great father is one whose children look up to him rather than away from him. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father. — Barbara Demick

But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody. — Kid Rock

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left to him owes to his father's care. — William Penn

When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work. — Clint Eastwood

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity on both counts. — Shirley Chisholm

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers. — George D. Prentice

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child. — Confucius

When you're gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a great father.' — Steve Blank

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen. — Matthew McConaughey

Being a father is just great. I love every minute - even the rubbish, middle-of-the night stuff. — Tom Ward

My father was a great fan of the horses. His only regret was that I never ran in the Grand National. — Steve Ovett

[M]y father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it. — John S. Hall

People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man. — Dhani Harrison

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father. — Deion Sanders

Look at how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called God's children. 1 John 3:1 — Beth Moore

One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity. — Jeff Raikes

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative. — Rose Kennedy

Mel Gibson's father doesn't think there was a Holocaust? Great. I don't think there's a movie. We're even. — Joan Rivers

She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments. — David Benioff

The undutiful behaviour of children towards their parents is a very great provocation to God our common Father; and, if men do not punish it, he will. — Matthew Henry