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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
My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.
— Louise Leakey
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.
— Franz Boas
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
When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.
— Edmund Phelps
My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
— George Eliot
Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.
— Cesare Pavese
What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.
— William Shakespeare
My father said I was perfectly suited for Washington because I've always worked around nuts.
— Leon Panetta
As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
— Al Yankovic
They call him the Colonel, and he's Farley's father." "I'd feel sorry for her, but my family's infinitely worse." I
— Victoria Aveyard
I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.
— Mickey Rourke
I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.
— Francis Ford Coppola
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
I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.
— Jean Dujardin
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
— Mary Ellen Chase
The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.
— Ziggy Marley
My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower.
— Jeff Sessions
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
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
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
— Gore Vidal
My father who was always serious has fallen in love with a dog. What can I do but be happy for him?
— Michael Simms
My life is an apology for the life of my father.
— Kristin Cashore
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've learned ... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.
— Andy Rooney
I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companies.
— Martha Stewart
My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
— John Major
My father, Tommy, who was a trained draughtsman, played for Preston North End in the Finney era. He liked football but did not love it as I do.
— Mark Lawrenson
Who was the first man that scratched his head? For to my thinking it must have been our father Adam.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions.
— Vladimir Potanin
My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
— Walter Salles
When my father died, I was 21, and he'd been sick for a few years. He changed during his illness. He kind of softened during it.
— Luanne Rice
The interesting thing for me is to put together all my influences and all my experiences I got through my traveling with my father.
— Rokia Traore
I started with capital of about $1,500, a princely sum for a student coming out of college, an amount I borrowed from my father.
— Sunil Mittal
Fuck if I know but I know for damn sure I'm not leaving her alone with your father, I'll probably come back to find my kids on Ebay or some shit.
— Jordan Silver
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
My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
— Immanuel Velikovsky
My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.
— Michael Cera
My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
— Vincent Cassel
The nation of my father is too strong for a man who cannot command even his own body.
— Conn Iggulden
Because I'm a monster, like my father before me and his father before him, and so on. There is no help for me.
— Courtney Cole
My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me.
— Hill Harper
It was impossible for me to thank my father; what he called my sentimentality would have exasperated him.
— Marcel Proust
My father, A. M. Rosenthal, edited the 'Times' for nearly 20 years and worked at the paper for many more.
— Andrew Rosenthal
If God is really my Father, I have rights, and He has responsibilities. I hereby claim my birthright to be protected, educated, and provided for!
— Stefan Emunds
When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.
— Ann Brashares
Mom, thank you. Mr. Palmer, my father I never had, thank you for teaching me what it is to be a man.
— Ray Rice
My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.
— Susumu Tonegawa
With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.
— Arabella Weir
But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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
My name is Lilith, I'm twenty six years old and besides working for my father, I don't do much.
— Rachel Spanswick
My very revered father, I am beginning to think that - Well, there's little peace in this world for a quiet book-loving man.
— Ellery Queen
It's like my parents' musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It's their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions!
— Chet Faker
I have my father to thank for my build and height, and my mother to thank for my lips and eyes.
— Jasmine Guinness
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
— T. Boone Pickens
My son has a big Christmas problem - what do you buy for a father who has everything and you're using it?
— Milton Berle
I'm done waiting for someone, even my father, to save me. Today I'm the one who will be doing the saving.
— Pam Bachorz
You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone.
— Michael Jordan
My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it.
— Simon McBurney
I am a daughter. My father is an example for me.
— Malala Yousafzai
My father was always there for me when I lost. But, then, I never really lost when my father was there.
— Laurie Beth Jones
Sadly, I can't say the same for my Father, who is probably in a different place - Hell.
— Alan Partridge
I wanted to be respected and to be loved. I longed for a man, like my father, to come and take me away from it all.
— Nicci Greene
My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.
— Jayne Mansfield
But for me, I am anot afraid, because the worst thing that could happen is getting to see "my Father eye to eye.
— Max Lucado
My father was an ardent socialist for many years.
— Leon Askin
I've auditioned for pretty much every one of my father's movies.
— Scott Eastwood
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.
— Richard Diebenkorn
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
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.
— David Bowie
I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
— Eddie Cibrian
My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.
— Kevin Kwan
My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.
— Adam Sandler
My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she became a stay-at-home mother.
— Siobhan Fallon Hogan
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
I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.
— Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Tell my father I was abducted by a lucius nymph and pulled to her lair." Styxx
"For the record, I resent being called a lucius nymph." Galen — Sherrilyn Kenyon
"For the record, I resent being called a lucius nymph." Galen — Sherrilyn Kenyon
My father Time is weak and gray
With waiting for a better day;
See how idiot-like he stands,
Fumbling with his palsied hands! — Percy Bysshe Shelley
With waiting for a better day;
See how idiot-like he stands,
Fumbling with his palsied hands! — Percy Bysshe Shelley
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.
— Joyce Meyer
Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.
— Edward Norton
We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.
— Maggie Stiefvater
I read Stephen King as a junior high schooler. My father introduced me to Stephen King far too young, which I'm very grateful for now.
— Bridget Carpenter
I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.
— Laurence J. Peter