Father Quotes - Page 18

• My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.

  Jeff Bridges

  Teacher, Brother, Mentor

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• My father Lloyd Bridges was very versatile in his parts, but he had a hit in the '60s 'Sea Hunt,' where he played a skin diver. And he was so into that role that people actually thought he was a skin-diver.

  Jeff Bridges

  Sea, Bridges, People

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. January 13, 2010.

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• Faith receives, day by day, what a loving Heavenly Father apportions.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Heavenly Father, Heavenly

  Elisabeth Elliot (2002). “Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity”, p.34, Revell

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• A father doesn't say, 'Don't go that way.' He says, 'ome follow me.'

  Judah Smith

  Way, Follow Me

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• The Warren Court wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution... I intend to succeed where they failed.

  Barack Obama

  Succeed, Essentials, Constitution

  "The Gipper vs. Obama" by Roger Kimball, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 15, 2009.

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• The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Pirate, Way, Curious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• On Father's Day, we again wish you all happy birthday.

  Ralph Kiner

  Wish, Wish You

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• Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?

  Al Capp

  Children, Son, Years

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• My father was all brain and little heart.

  Stephen Fry

  Heart, Brain, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Son, Conviction

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.88, Friederich Nietzsche

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• My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.

  Sidney Poitier

  Mother, Be Kind, Firsts

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• My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.

  Sidney Poitier

  Mother, Men, Names

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• My father was the quintessential husband and dad.

  Sidney Poitier

  Husband, Dad, Quintessential

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• My father was very big on marriage.

  Sidney Poitier

  Bigs

  "The leading man" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2000.

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• 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

  Son, Gun, Holding On

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• I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Brother, Wife

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.22, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Rights, Light

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it.

  Steve Farrar

  Distance, Trying, Overcoming

  Steve Farrar (2009). “Point Man: How a Man Can Lead His Family”, p.47, Multnomah

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• Not once does the Bible report that (Jesus) rushed anywhere. He was often busy, but never in a mad dash. And yet He perfectly accomplished all the Father designed for Him to do.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Jesus, Mad, Doe

  Charles R. Swindoll (1981). “Make up your mind --about the issues of life”, Multnomah Publishers

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• Barack Obama, you know has a lot of supporters here in America, but he's very popular internationally. It's quite interesting. This is a true story. It was in the paper. Barack Obama is so popular in the African town where his father was born, they've named a beer after him. That's true. Yeah. So next time you're in Africa, sit back, relax, and enjoy a tall, cold Barackelob Light. Good enough. Clearly not as popular a beer as it used to be.

  Conan O'Brien

  Beer, America, Light

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• It is the Happiness of his Church that, when the Powers of Earth and Hell combine against it...that the Throne of Grace is of the easiest access-and its Appeal thither is graciously invited by the Father of Mercies, who has assured it, that when his Children ask Bread he will not give them a Stone.

  John Hancock

  Children, Giving, Grace

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• In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father - of men as men, in other words.

  Dennis Prager

  Husband, Lying, Men

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• The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine.

  Terry Pratchett

  Jesus, Community, Woods

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• What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is), and therefore, every myth becomes the father of innumerable truths on the abstract level.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Levels, Flow

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• Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?

  Sean Hannity

  Daughter, Mother, Giving Up

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