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I always saw myself as really ugly. My father even told me I was ugly because I would shave my head and look like a boy. — Asia Argento

I took my daughter to the father-daughter dance, and I cried like a little baby. — Kevin Hart

Father love is ancient and austere, like mountains. It is difficult to accept the collapsing of a mountain. — Glenn Haybittle

There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry. — Joni Eareckson Tada

Green called Curtis his son. And he was ready to go to war for him, like any good father would. — A.E. Via

Samuel thought how his father married to his mother was like a spoon married to a garbage disposal. — Nathan Hill

I didn't have a father growing up, and I was raised with all women, and I didn't really understand men. I thought they were like women, right? — Rene Russo

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly. — Lawrence Welk

And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father. — James Joyce

He (her son) is just like his father, doesn't listen to a word I say! — Logan Crowe

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

weeks." "Sounds like a good idea. The police may have options for investigating that your father and — Claire Fogel

I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father. — Danny Aiello

it's clear that before we can be a father and son again, we have to treat each other like men first. — Brian Leung

He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the most part. — Marc Maron

Mitch Hurwitz was like a father figure to me. He was so sweet, and he's just so smart. — Alia Shawkat

A friend once said his father use to say "I don't want to be a millionaire I just want to live like one" if we could all be so lucky. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Our loving Heavenly Father wants us to become more like him. God understands that we get there not in an instant, but by taking one step at a time. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle. — Vernor Vinge

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes. — Prince Charles

I gave my jersey to Mourinho because he's the best coach in the world and I love him like a father. — Mesut Ozil

[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy. — Mavis Gallant

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 feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself. — B. D. Wong

Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father — Tony Randall

Ari turned to face the huge Jinn with fury in her eyes. "You bastard."
"Actually, I have a father. I just don't like him very much. — Samantha Young

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway. — Sebastian Horsley

Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy. — Michael Douglas

He has his father's distinctive good looks, like a badly made crash test dummy. He also smells like a funeral parlor, but that may be incidental. — John Connolly

For Father's Day, my kids always give me a bottle of cologne called English Leather. It's appropriate! To them I always smell like a wallet. — Robert Orben

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit. — Barbara Kingsolver

My father's mood surrounded him like a field and affected any room he occupied, like an odor or a certain cast to the light. — David Foster Wallace

My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who had no sense of humour. — Mike Myers

It must have been the fall of 1952 when my father returned to London sporting a neck tie emblazoned with the words 'I Like Ike.' — Nigel Hamilton

I like Hazelle. Respect her. The explosion that killed my father took out her husband as well, leaving her with three boys and a baby due any day. — Scholastic Inc.

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society. — Barbra Streisand

My father had gifted us both with a package of suspicion that sat like a teeth-baring watchdog in our minds. — Tarryn Fisher

Girls, don't suffocate your father. He's had a long trip." "Don't listen to your mother, just this once. You can suffocate me all you like. — Marissa Meyer

We deal with God - who is Love. He isn't a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us. — Corrie Ten Boom

The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day. — Frank Beddor

I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I? — Brandon Sanderson

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him. — Henry Louis Gates

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. — Walter Scott

Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started. — John Fante

HERE LIES BROM
Who was a Dragon Rider
And like a father
To me.
May his name live on in glory. — Christopher Paolini

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece. — Steve Buscemi

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father. — Joel Osteen

Veronika had accused her father of being a misogynist and Thomas had told Veronika to stop acting like a pseudo lesbian intellectual. — Liane Moriarty

I think I'll buy you from your father so you can say nice things like that to me three times a day. How much for her, Mo? — Cornelia Funke

A child, I'm miserable admitting it, a child stands like a priest under his father's sky. Why do you fate me to fail you? — Denis Johnson

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him. — Dean Koontz

If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more. — Mahatma Gandhi

If your father says 'Bark like a dog,' I say 'What breed, Your Honor? — Scott Lynch

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you. — Paul Robeson

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging. — Damien Hirst

Everything they do, from smiling to crying, feels like a blessing. Being a father feels amazing. This has been the most spiritual moment in my life. — Ricky Martin

He looks a hell of a lot like me, only a fair bit older. — Steven Herrick

Ahmed is not a murderer like my father, but within the walls of our apartment - among people he claims to love - he is every inch a terrorist. — Zak Ebrahim

My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.' — Action Bronson

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

...Father said you swallow like you had a fishbone in your throat... — William Faulkner

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation. — Ann Curry

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

In God's eyes the church is like a family circle where each one feels the warmth of the Father's love. — Sunday Adelaja

Don't talk to me like that! I am your mother! Oh, God the Father, I have raised a monster! — Carlos Malvar

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times. — Camille Paglia

Pops, he was a singer's singer. I loved to hear my father sing. He just was so laid-back and cool. I always wished I could sing like Pops. — Mavis Staples

Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our four-room apartment and read aloud. — Jim Trelease

Do you drink blood?" His tone was challenging. I felt like a daughter confronted by her father about smoking weed or drinking booze. "I — J.R. Rain

People who've never gone hunting have a tendency to look down on hunters and act like they're out killing Bambi's father. — Patty Hearst

Jackson's father said she was built like Marilyn Monroe and had the temperament of Maureen O'Hara. The man was a prophet for sure. — Carolyn Brown

Without the Blessed Sacrament a position like mine would be intolerable. — Father Damien

My silver iris necklace, like my father said have a meaning the petals represent faith, valor and wisdom. — Hilary Duff

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

Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish. — Amor Towles

She's so beautiful. She lectures a lot, like her father, but she's really beautiful. — Diana S. Zimmerman

The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence - Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon. — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat. — Margaret Halsey

Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head. — Sue Townsend

I'm not seeing a strong father-son relationship here, Alex. You two make Anakin and Luke look like Andy and Opie. — Rachel Vincent

Like my father before me, I'm a very passionate person, with boundless energy and tremedous willpower. — Raymond Blanc

Like Mum and that bastard." "You mean Da?"
"Call him what you like. — G.A. Aiken

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

EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE. YOUR LUCKY COLOUR IS DEAD. Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON. — Neil Gaiman

I guess I'm like any other concerned father, except that nobody else's son guns a cycle over 17 pickups without holding on to the handlebars. — Evel Knievel

A son's responsibility isn't to be like his father, but to be better than him. — Jo Nesbo

I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companies. — Martha Stewart

Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that. — Britt Ekland

My father was a chef but hadn't owned his own business. I didn't like that. In my heart of hearts, I knew I wanted to be in business. — Andrew Cherng

But sometimes I wanted to feel like a child, to know that he would stand in front of me while waves crashed towards us or arrows come at us. — Belinda Jeffrey

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

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. — Samuel Butler

A well-bred duckling spreads his feet wide apart, just like his father and mother, in this way. Now bend your neck, and say 'quack.'" The — Hans Christian Andersen

I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image. — Anna Deavere Smith

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week. — Adam Sandler

At times, I want to explode like a bomb or give in to my animalistic instincts like the others. But my father raised me better. He'd — Abi Ketner

Jess's feelings about Leslie's father poked up like a canker sore. You keep biting it, and it gets bigger and worse instead of better. — Katherine Paterson

My father didn't believe in war. He said war was evil, but if it came he would revel in it like sand in a storm. — Nnedi Okorafor

His father was an ass and he is an ass. I imagine sooner than I should like I shall be playing uncle to a litter of asses. — T.A. Miles