Father Quotes - Page 26

• Many fathers go their entire lives without announcing how sexy their son's old girlfriends are.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Sexy, Girlfriend, Son

  "Backup Mommy". Live chat, www.slate.com. March 8, 2016.

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• My parents, like others of "The Greatest Generation" who lived through the Great Depression and World War II, wanted to provide the best possible life for their children. My mother and father both attended college but dropped out to earn a living during the Depression, working the rest of their lives at blue-collar work.

  Dan Millman

  Mother, Children, War

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• India, to some extent, courses through my blood. My father was brought up there, and my grandfather served there, and so on. We have a very strong family affinity for the place.

  John Gimlette

  Strong, Blood, India

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I'm from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards a lot of them.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Running, Class, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The father-son thing, that's a separate thing. This film [Forsaken] was not about that. This was a film about two actors wanting to try and tell a story... and taking advantage of the fact that we looked like a father and son.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Son, Two, Trying

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• My father modestly referred to himself as the Great Santini when we were growing up. And he took it - I later learned he had seen a high-wire aerialist when he was a boy, and he was up doing acrobatics in his airplane, and when he came down one time - when was a young lieutenant - he said, I was better than the Great Santini today. And some of the other pilots heard it, and the nickname stuck.

  Terry Gross

  Growing Up, Airplane, Boys

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• I don't think my father noticed that he had daughters. I think, you know, part of the damage of the childhood was, I simply don't think they were acknowledged as human beings at all. Or - you know, one of the reasons I became a cook later on in my life was, I was not allowed to cook an egg.

  Terry Gross

  Daughter, Thinking, Eggs

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• And the rules were so clear, you could not deviate from that all. And I think it especially damaged my sisters because there was nothing they could do to get my father's attention, to win his approval. They could not play sports. They could not do these other things. They could not be tough. They could not be macho. And so I think they suffered just from sheer neglect if nothing else.

  Terry Gross

  Sports, Winning, Thinking

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• You know, how am I leading my own life? What am I denying? Since I brought such great powers of denial into my adult life, what am I not doing as a husband? What am I not doing as a father? The whole thing started unraveling with me that once I kept it up close to the chest, I could hold it all in, but once I started letting it out, it all started coming out.

  Terry Gross

  Husband, Adults, Denial

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• So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book came out, she left my father the day he retired from the Marine Corps. They had a parade and march, and she came home and left.

  Terry Gross

  Mother, Book, Home

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• I loved working with Malcolm [McDowell]. He's been such an important person in my life. I mean, not just as someone I was married to, which is huge, and the father of my children, which is even bigger, but also as a friend and an inspiration and somebody who probably helped to fuel something that all my reading as a child had already started, which was a love of England and the world of the theater over there, which I became involved with through him and probably because of him.

  Mary Steenburgen

  Children, Inspiration, Reading

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.

  Jim Hamilton

  Brother, Dad, Men

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.

  Bryan Ferry

  Jobs, Hands, Band

  "Bryan Ferry Talks New Solo Album, Roxy Music". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 12, 2010.

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• In hindsight I can see that my love for the arts began by watching my father and his colleagues perform on stage in Jamaica, and running a muck among the exhibits of fabulous Jamaican art at the National Gallery while mum was upstairs curating.

  Michael Hyatt

  Running, Art, Jamaica

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church. It was what I was supposed to do. I just took that step of faith.

  Joel Osteen

  Simple, Church, Desire

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• In Frankenstein there is a transfer first of life into death (in the creation and animation of the monster), and then of death into life, as the monster takes his revenge on the father who gave him life but withheld recognition.

  Laura Mullen

  Revenge, Monsters, Firsts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.

  Kieran Hebden

  Rocks, Soul, Listening

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Rory is very established in England, which you are seeing right now with Bond. But his father Roy Kinnear was a very, very beloved comedy actor here in the UK. And Rory actually even looks a bit like his dad. And so it makes a lot of sense to me that Rory has such good comic chops because it's in his blood. He's very, very funny as Sean.

  Simon Pegg

  Dad, Blood, Looks

  Source: 411mania.com

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• I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he had in music and all his musical skills. I finally managed to make that my profession.

  Rokia Traore

  Years, Skills, Musical

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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• My father was not able to get all the vinyl he used to listen to with me. He couldn't travel as he did it because of his profession as a diplomatic career.

  Rokia Traore

  Careers, Able, Vinyl

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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• The interesting thing for me is to put together all my influences and all my experiences I got through my traveling with my father.

  Rokia Traore

  Interesting, Together, Influence

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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• When I'm walking with my father through the woods, and we reach a place where you see so far that your ego suddenly shrinks because you are so touched by the dimension of your surroundings.

  Volker Bertelmann

  Ego, Woods, Dimensions

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I fell in love with Twitter. Fathers, lock up your deadlines.

  David Edelstein

  Locks, Deadline, Lock Up

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• My father builds homes. So I grew up around the idea that you can take a piece of land, and you can bulldozer it and build new homes on it. You can create something new.

  Harry West

  Home, Land, Ideas

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I was born in an elevator, and - as my mother said - naturally it was going down. She said, "All I remember is telling your father, 'That's it! Never again!'" That's why I'm an only child.

  Jack Lemmon

  Mother, Children, Only Child

  Source: www.abilitymagazine.com

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