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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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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