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When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.
— Bertrand Piccard
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
My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year.
— Amar'e Stoudemire
Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet reading lamp.
— John Steinbeck
I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
— Lawrence Welk
When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!
— Rodney Dangerfield
My father said I was perfectly suited for Washington because I've always worked around nuts.
— Leon Panetta
I would never get married while my father is still alive because I wouldn't want him to walk me down the aisle.
— Chelsea Handler
Men always liked me, because I was very damaged and unpredictable'my children's father claims that I have multiple personalities, but I don't.
— Kola Boof
As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.
— Alan King
Wait!' called Blue. 'Will you tell me about my father?"
"No," Gwenllian replied. "I will get mayonnaise. — Maggie Stiefvater
"No," Gwenllian replied. "I will get mayonnaise. — Maggie Stiefvater
I've done my work and I'm happy with it ... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was.
— Brandon Lee
When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.'
— Jan Hutchins
Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.
— Richard Harris Barham
When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
— Barbra Streisand
I wanted to emulate my father. I wanted to be as tough as he was. I wanted to do the things that he did. I watched him.
— Arnold Palmer
My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.
— Tracy Morgan
He was an amazing father. I clutched my memories of him to my heart for so long, but he's a part of the world.
— Jennifer Grant
He can't be a baby forever. He's a Stark, and near four." Robb sighed. "Well, Mother will be home soon. And I'll bring back Father, I promise.
— George R R Martin
I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.
— Juan Manuel Marquez
We didn't like each other when you were alive," I muttered to my father. "You think living in my head is going to change that?
— Devon Monk
If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.
— William Shakespeare
He fell facedown and prayed, "My Father! If it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will." Matthew 26:39
— Beth Moore
Father forgive me for I have sinned. -Damian
— Peter J. Tomasi
People assume that because I was brought up on Rolling Stones tours, and my father is who he is, I'm some kind of rock-and-roll bad girl.
— Elizabeth Jagger
When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.
— Chelsea Clinton
My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.
— Ziggy Marley
I wonder if my kidnappers know who my father was in Haiti, or if they know what powers they are dealing with.
— Marc Ashton
I cohabited for 20 years with my longtime husband and father of my two now-teen daughters in a stable family household.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
I remember being very young and going to AA meetings with my father in Brooklyn. I thought it was fun because they served hot chocolate and cookies.
— Rochelle Aytes
If I were a real Creek View girl, the kind Josh liked, I'd be hammered right now, not thinking about my dead father.
— Heather Demetrios
Has a new father and a new life. I cannot
— John Grisham
I have no doubt that I'd be a marvelous father. Maybe not when they're tiny, but when they're a little bit older, I think I'd be rather good.
— Hugh Grant
I'd once overheard my daddy tell my momma that the six Winston boys had inherited their father's ability to charm snakes, the IRS, and women.
— Penny Reid
There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
— Marat Safin
My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.
— Carol Vorderman
My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became a hand-me-down to me.
— Bre Pettis
Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John.
— Jim Gaffigan
Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never cast out.
— Anonymous
That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.
— Markus Zusak
My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.
— Lincoln Steffens
I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.
— Gordon Brown
I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'
— Emo Philips
I idolize my father. I mean, he has worked so hard in his life.
— Chad Michael Murray
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
— Jesus Christ
I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission.
— Michael Johnson
Lynet scowled. I'm just so tired of young knights wearing their father's armor and dreaming romantic dreams riding up to their death.
— Gerald Morris
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
I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.
— Guy Pearce
When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn't have with my father.
— Curtis Jackson
I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.
— Chuck D
My father was, I suppose, a crank. He had a fine, precise mind, which ignored what it was not interested in.
— L.P. Hartley
The world clamors, "Do more! Be all that you can be!" But our Father whispers, "Be still and know that I am God.
— Joanna Weaver
Oh, sorry. I'm not ... uh ... interrupting something that will make me uncomfortable, am I?
— G.A. Aiken
I've thought of all the questions," said Father.
"That only means you've stopped trying to think of new ones. — Orson Scott Card
"That only means you've stopped trying to think of new ones. — Orson Scott Card
My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.
— Sara Maitland
Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.
— Cheryl Hines
People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"
— Matthea Harvey
My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.
— Marilyn Manson
My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.
— Steven Spielberg
My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
— John Major
Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.
— Wyclef Jean
I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.
— Walter Mosley
People ask me, do I ever disagree with my father? It would be a little strange if I didn't.
— Ivanka Trump
I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
— Pat Conroy
My father used to be away for months at a time, and he'd never leave any money for food, so my brother and I had to go out and nick it.
— Norman Wisdom
I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook.
— Bill Cosby
I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.
— Sebastian Pinera
This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.
— George Bernard Shaw
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.
— Caroline Kennedy
I can but pray the Father o' a' to haud his e'e upon her, an' his airms aboot her, an' keep aff the hardenin' o' the hert 'at despises coonsel!
— George MacDonald
My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
— Tamara Ecclestone
When I would feel down ... I'd have some noodles father prepared, and all the worries I had that day ... Poof! They would all disappear.
— Kim Young-kwang
I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.
— Alexa Ray Joel
Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.
— Andre Dubus III
I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Father God, fill my heart with Your love so that I may pass it on to friends and strangers. Amen. - MARION BOND WEST
— Various
Heavenly Father, I will reason; I will will; I will act; but guide Thou my reason, will, and activity to the right thing that I should do.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
If I had shown half as many dangerous tendencies when I was a boy, my father would have apprenticed me to a greengrocer, of that I'm very sure,
— Samuel Butler
When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
— A. N. Wilson
It was the first time in years I didn't wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.
— Ally Carter
My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
— Magic Johnson
My father was a man, and I know the sex pretty well.
— Elizabeth Gaskell