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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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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