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My father's face, when he said that, dissolved into a stillness, a sad expression, sadder than human feeling.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
my father said the whole world seemed made of sound and nothing else.
— Hanya Yanagihara
My father cried when I said I wanted to be a chef.
— Michael Symon
My father had bought him a shirt
that said Sure you can date my daughter. In a completely unrelated topic,
have you seen my shotgun? — Tara Sivec
that said Sure you can date my daughter. In a completely unrelated topic,
have you seen my shotgun? — Tara Sivec
my father said, "when in dount, castle
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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
It doesn't matter that nobody sees your face or knows your name, my wide eyed child, my father said to me. You know it. You be it.
You are. — Patricia Raybon
You are. — Patricia Raybon
If you don't," she said sweetly, "I'll tell my father you made improper advances to me. He'll have the skin flayed off your back.
— Diana Gabaldon
Hey, Ocean Eyes," my father said. "Where'd you go on us?
— Alice Sebold
My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
— Marlo Thomas
My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college - and, with four sons after the war, said he could still not afford to do so.
— Nigel Hamilton
Even if that is the truth," Derkein said, "what does it have to do with my father suddenly thinking he can raise the dead?
— Alecia Stone
You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
— Yaya Toure
My father said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.
— Maria Goeppert-Mayer
My father said, You are a spirit. Where did you die?
and we were equally alive. I thought to correct him
but he was not in his perfect mind. — Katharine Whitcomb
and we were equally alive. I thought to correct him
but he was not in his perfect mind. — Katharine Whitcomb
But my father's faith, as I said, was absolute. Through God's prayer he could be granted exactly what he wanted.
— Amy Tan
My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever knew.
— Richard Flanagan
My father called them smallfolk," said Tyrion, "and he was not what you'd call a jolly man.
— George R R Martin
My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.
— Gabrielle Hamilton
My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.
— Tallulah Bankhead
My father said: "If you want to catch your girl cheating, you knock on the front door and run to the back, because he's coming out the back."
— Tracy Morgan
Hindsight is a lousy gardener, as my father always said.
— L.E. Modesitt Jr.
My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?
— Dexter Scott King
My father always said, 'You can do anything a man can do.'
— Gwendoline Christie
The priests were deferential, siding with Rome, and those who opposed them were said to be robbers and thugs, my father and his friends among
— Alice Hoffman
My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.
— Tess Gerritsen
Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?
— Laurence Sterne
You can love completely without complete understanding."
"That I have known and preached." my father said. — Norman Maclean
"That I have known and preached." my father said. — Norman Maclean
Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.
— Brandon Sanderson
I do have a built-in advantage,' said Giles. 'I am my father's son.
— Jeffrey Archer
I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.
— Liza Minnelli
Until next time," Hansard said, "when hopefully, you won't have my father's vomit in your hair.
— Derek Landy
My silver iris necklace, like my father said have a meaning the petals represent faith, valor and wisdom.
— Hilary Duff
My father tutored me well on amnesia. He always said it was a necessary ingredient for any friendship. (Kiara)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.
— Ethel Merman
What's life without risk," my father said. "Nothing but mauvais foi [bad faith]" from The Society of S (p. 137).
— Susan Hubbard
My father always said that if you want oranges, you have to go to where the oranges grow.
— Terrence Howard
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 once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'
— Marianne Faithfull
My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.
— Diane Cilento
My father said about money: 'You have to have some. But you don't have to have all of it. Just be honest with yourself.'
— Joe Paterno
My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything. You have to be an entrepreneur
— Wayne Huizenga
That was when the dwarf turned to the eunuch and said, "I've killed my father," in the same tone a man might use to say, "I've stubbed my toe.
— George R R Martin
I was thankful," said my father, "for the make-believe.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
"Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too."
— Charles Dickens
I'm named after my father, Rudolph," he said, then shot her a stern look. "But if you connect that with my red nose --
— Roxanne Snopek
My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food,' he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi
My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.
— Patricia Briggs
My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.'
— Alexandra Guarnaschelli
My father always said, 'Bet on yourself.'
— Jon Voight
My father's work is rather mysterious, not much said, and my grandfather's is robust, bursting off the walls.
— Jamie Wyeth
My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'
— Malala Yousafzai
My mother said my father had a drop of dragon blood."
"Two drops. That, or a cock six feet long. — George R R Martin
"Two drops. That, or a cock six feet long. — George R R Martin
My father always said: 'If you want to know someone, live together on a boat.'
— Christian Camargo
My father was a salesman, and I always said I wouldn't be one.
— Daniel Woodrell
My mother says I was two and a half when I first mentioned I wanted to be an actor. My father said, 'The word is pronounced 'Doctor!'
— Sanjeev Bhaskar
I walked out of his room sure I'd said the right thing maybe not as a father but as a Dad. I'd said the right thing, for once in my life.
— Steven Herrick
My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'
— Chazz Palminteri
I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we should go about preventing this.
— Joyce Maynard
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.
— Rodney Dangerfield
Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,
and has wit in it, and instruction too,
if we can but find it out. — Laurence Sterne
and has wit in it, and instruction too,
if we can but find it out. — Laurence Sterne
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
My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.
— Emilia Clarke
My father thrives on fear. You know that prayer If I should die before I wake? I had sheets that said that!
— Christopher Titus
My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.
— Steven Herrick
Hello! Your dear father is unfortunately very dead," he called. "And you said my dispersal system would never work!
— Rachel Caine
Kevin dragged his stare back to Wymack's face and said, "and my father comes to all of my games. That is enough." On
— Nora Sakavic
The doctors said that I got sick because my father worked at Chernobyl. And after that I was born. I love my father.
— Svetlana Alexievich
Love and death," my father said. "It's all love and death.
— Sherman Alexie
I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'
— Ralph Nader
What can I do to improve my personal appearance?" "Start by bathing," her father said.
— William Goldman
I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.
— Susana Martinez
When I was 7 years old, my father asked me a simple question. He said, 'do you want to see someone fly?' What 7 year old boy is gonna say no to that?
— Matt Striker
My father said the weakest camel draws the wolves."
"Mine told me to hide until the wolves go away," Abban replied. — Peter V. Brett
"Mine told me to hide until the wolves go away," Abban replied. — Peter V. Brett
My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.
— Orson Scott Card
What more can anyone take from me?" said my father, his head bent down. "Everywhere I go I carry my hell with me.
— Sally Gardner
My father once said I was as gullible as a fish. I thought he said edible. I thought he meant I was tasty. The
— Sharon Creech
My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.
— Damon Wayans
Count your blessings, my father always said. It shames you, to count yours by the hardships of other people.
— Anna Quindlen