Father Quotes - Page 17

• It was hard for me, as a father, to imagine going through what my birth mom went through, to raise a child inside of her for nine months, and then have to say goodbye. And so it's hard for me to understand that pain and that process.

  Michael Franti

  Mom, Goodbye, Children

  "Michael Franti | Rocker. Chart Topper. Humanitarian. Bad Ass. Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The only thing intimidating about Cube is that he's the father of gangsta' rap. You just worry about getting your lines right, or he might shoot you.

  Terry Crews

  Rap, Gangsta, Worry

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I enjoyed being what I was in radio, which some thought of as a shock jock although, to this day, I still can't figure out what I've done that's so shocking. As to my favorite interviews, I loved having my mother and father on. I also enjoyed talking to Elmo, who's a puppet. I found T.I.'s trying to be extra-cool very endearing. Tyra Banks was not the diva I expected her to be. I loved talking to her. And Simon Cowell is a really nice guy. Yeah! He's my fave, and he's handsome.

  Wendy Williams

  Mother, Nice, Talking

  Source: aalbc.com

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• People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music.

  William Shatner

  Writing, Symphony, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I feel very fortunate for audiences to have been so gracious as to allow me to do pretty much any role that I felt I could do. They let me play a president. They let me play a lawyer. They let me play a hit man. They let me play a father. They let me play Howard Saint.

  John Travolta

  Men, Play, President

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• Had He (Jesus) not offered Himself through the Holy Ghost, He would not be accepted in the eyes of God the Father. Nor would He have endured the sufferings of the cross. Had He not presented Himself through the Holy Ghost, His blood would not have remained pure and spotless. And let me add this: Had the Holy Spirit not been with Jesus, He would have sinned.

  Benny Hinn

  Jesus, Eye, Blood

  Benny Hinn (1990). “Good Morning, Holy Spirit”, p.133, Harper Collins

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• Jesus refused to produce a sign for Herod because it was not the Father's will.

  John Hagee

  Jesus, Produce, Messiah

  "In Defense of Israel". Book by John Hagee, 2007.

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• I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.

  Norah Jones

  Daughter, Book, Together

  "Jones sweeps major Grammys" By Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. February 24, 2003.

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• My parents had a sidewalk cafe: every Sunday there was an accordion player and apparently I went through the motions, squeezing a shoebox. One of the regulars in 'the cafe said to my father: "I think you should get your son an accordion-that's what he's trying to do, with that shoebox." So they got me a little cardboard diatonic accordion-I still have it. I started to play the National Anthem, and things like that. It seems I was musically gifted-but my parents just never pushed in that direction.

  Toots Thielemans

  Son, Sunday, Player

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• Our father taught us how to play. He's also our biggest inspiration and he opened our ears to a lot of older music, like Richie Valens, Chuck Berry, Willie Nelson, and Fats Domino.

  Henry Garza

  Inspiration, Taught Us, Play

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• The piano by its black and white keys always attracted me, my father showed me how to use... and slowly I got into playing.

  Richard Clayderman

  Black And White, Keys, Piano

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• My father did not bother that I play not a classical music. He always congratulated me for my development in music, I mean in any music but, he hang on to continue training at the Academy of Music... however, I never mentioned to my teachers that I trained myself at weekends in clubs.

  Richard Clayderman

  Teacher, Mean, Weekend

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• Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil rights. She sang with Pete Seeger among others. My father was an Actor.

  Vicki Sue Robinson

  Mother, Rights, Political

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• Shanks was the father figure but Roger Hunt was something special. It might sound daft but just picking up his sweaty kit gave me satisfaction.

  Phil Thompson

  Special, Sound, Might

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• Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us that the totalitarian society is grounded upon the concept of God the father. One paternal god, one paternal leader. Authority is absolute.

  Gore Vidal

  Daddy, Giving, Leader

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.82, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek...

  Margaret Thatcher

  Reading, Knees, Hayek

  "The Path to Power". Book by Margaret Thatcher (p. 604), 1995.

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• I've been involved with law enforcement for some time. My father was in law enforcement. I went through the training for Homeland Security. I enjoy it very much.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Law, Training, Enforcement

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• Michael Jackson has a new baby boy; no word yet who the father is.

  Jay Leno

  Baby, Boys, Baby Boy

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• The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Mother, Stars, Kids

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• How unutterably sweet is the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows us completely. No talebearer can inform on us; no enemy can make an accusation stick; no forgotten skeleton can come tumbling out of some hidden closet to abash us and expose out past; no unsuspected weakness in our characters can come to light to turn God away from us, since He knew us utterly before we knew him and called us to Himself in the full knowledge of everything that was against us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sweet, Character, Past

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• For me, everything is about Jesus and Father and the Holy Spirit, and relationships, and life is an adventure of faith lived one day at a time. Any aspirations, visions and dreams died a long time ago and I have absolutely no interest in resurrecting them (they would stink by now anyway). I have finally figured out that I have nothing to lose by living a life of faith. I know more joy every minute of every day than seems appropriate, but I love the wastefulness of my Father's grace and presence. For me, everything in my life that matters, is perfect!

  William P. Young

  Dream, Jesus, Adventure

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• My mother really was an extraordinary, inspirational, tough, cool, sexy, funny woman and that's the kind of woman I've always surrounded myself with. It's my friends, particularly my wife, who is not only smarter than and stronger than I am but, occasionally taller too. I think it all goes back to my mother. My father and my stepfather prized whit and resolve in the women they were with above all things. And they were among the rare men who understood that recognising somebody else's power does not diminish your own.

  Joss Whedon

  Sexy, Mother, Men

  Joss Whedon's acceptance speech at the Equality Now Award, www.americanrhetoric.com. May 15, 2006.

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• I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  School, Army, Grew Up

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• I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Country, Grew Up, Wanted

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• You will not find what you want in the world, only in the Father.

  Kevin DeYoung

  World, Want, What You Want

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