Father Quotes - Page 27

• I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

  T. D. Jakes

  Sick, Suffering, Age

  "In New Film, Bishop T.D. Jakes Gets Into the ‘Miracles’ Business". Interview with Crystal Shaw King, www.ebony.com. March 15, 2016.

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• I became a writer not because my father was one - my father made false teeth for a living. I became a writer because the Irish nuns who educated me taught me something about bravery with their willingness to give so much to me.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Giving, Bravery, Taught

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The Census Bureau is thinking of creating a new category because so many kids don't know how to describe themselves using the existing categories. I call these kids the "Keanu Reeves Generation," after the actor who has a Hawaiian father and a Welsh mother.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Mother, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store.

  Jessa Crispin

  Twenties, Firsts, Parenthood

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have yet to get sued. My father thinks I should get liability insurance.

  Jessa Crispin

  Thinking, Should, Liability

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My father was from a secular Jewish family and my mother from a nominally Christian (Episcopalian) one. They were not religious as adults. They did, however, believe in educating their children about the Bible. They viewed this as an essential part of any education.

  Mike Berenstain

  Christian, Mother, Religious

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Americans were in love with mesmerism because it was something that you could do in your own home. You could mesmerize or hypnotize your aunt or your mother or your father and people would go into these trance states and you could introduction autosuggestions tot hem or as some people saw it, you could cure them of illnesses.

  Mitch Horowitz

  Mother, Home, Aunt

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 4, 2010.

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• My father has been a rock for me every since.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Rocks, Has Beens

  "I Came Out First to God". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• When I went to school, my intention was to be a lawyer. When I attended university that was still the clear intention; I was going to be a lawyer. Why? Because it was as far as I could get from my father's antics and world. I thought that the world of the arts probably led people into the kind of behavior I had seen with him and that had resulted in a lot of hard times for my mother and me.

  James Lipton

  Mother, Art, School

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

  Malachy McCourt

  Disease, Alcoholics, Deserted

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.

  Malachy McCourt

  Drinking, Leaving, Way

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Obviously in a work capacity I've been tremendously busy running The Trump Organization now that my father's on the campaign trail and my own company and the growth of that. So it's been an amazing time, a wild experience, and an incredible one.

  Ivanka Trump

  Running, Organization, Growth

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview with Rachel Gillett, www.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• So it's exciting for me to be able to be with him [my father, Donald trump] for major moments and stand by his side, and I'm very proud of him as a daughter and as somebody who's worked beside him for the past decade at The Trump Organization.

  Ivanka Trump

  Daughter, Past, Organization

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• My father has created an enormous business and he's created an enormous brand for himself, and I'm contributing to the business that he's built every day at The Trump Organization

  Ivanka Trump

  Organization, Trump, Enormous

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview With Rachel Gillett, uk.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• I don't have a strategy. I am my own person. So if people disagree with the opinion of my father and want to dislike me because I'm his daughter, then I'm probably not going to be able to discourage them from that.

  Ivanka Trump

  Daughter, Dislike Me, People

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview With Rachel Gillett, uk.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• My father was a news guy, you know, he was in radio news. And so that was sort of in my DNA. It was something we talked about at the dinner table when I was a kid.

  Bill Maher

  Kids, Radio News, Dna

  "Comedian Bill Maher Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 16, 2011.

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• My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.

  Patti Smith

  Real, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Rocker Patti Smith, 'Dream Of Life'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 30, 2009.

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• My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn't come anymore, but I had his support.

  Patti Smith

  Couple, Loss, Support

  "Rocker Patti Smith, 'Dream Of Life'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 30, 2009.

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• While I completely disagree with the "purity" concept, it was the only place I saw fathers talking to girls about their expectations and attitudes to sex and expressing love and support. I didn't see liberal dads having similar conversations with their daughters.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Daughter, Sex

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton Chekhov, my favorite writer's master piece,Three Sisters,when she arrives reflecting on whether they're ever going to get to Moscow, memories of the death of their father, and she's in black, and she says I'm in mourning for the world, saying in part that I have a sad soul and a cheerful disposition.

  Cornel West

  Memories, Practice, Mourning

  "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

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• I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

  Missi Pyle

  Southern, Church, Baptists

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My father died early. My mother died early. I started hanging with the gangs. I'm on the streets; I'm committing crimes. And the music came along, and this music just took me on a different road.

  Ice T

  Mother, Different, Gang

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• My father was a director, and he used to always tell me, "You should be an actress." When I was 17, he gave me a job so that I'd be in the union.

  Katey Sagal

  Jobs, Actresses, Directors

  Source: www.elle.com

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• You can be Hitler and go to confession and say forgive me, Father, I killed six million Jews, and the priest would just be like no problem. Say 10 Heil Marys. And Hitler goes to heaven.

  Sarah Silverman

  Forgive Me, Heaven, Forgiving

  "Sarah Silverman, Serving Up Sinfully Divine Comedy". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. November 23, 2013.

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• I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren't getting enough time to see their kids because life's complications and hardships get in the way of those things.

  Clive Owen

  Believe, Kids, Way

  Source: collider.com

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