Father Quotes - Page 29

• My favorite thing about being a father is just seeing my kids grow and do some of the same things that I did when I was a kid, man.

  LeBron James

  Kids, Men, Favorites Things

  "NBA Finalists Stephen Curry and LeBron James Share What They've Learned About Fatherhood" by Joi-Marie Mckenzie, abcnews.go.com. June 19, 2016.

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• I just read about John Le Carre, the great spy novelist. He had an absolutely miserable childhood. His mother deserted him when he was young. His father was a playboy and a drunk. He was shifted around to many different homes. He knew he was a writer when he was about nine, but he was dyslexic. So here was a person with an absolutely messed-up childhood and a symptom that prevented him from doing what he wanted to do most. Yet that very symptom was part of the calling. It forced him to go deeper.

  James Hillman

  Mother, Home, Drunk

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I never stopped believing in us and I never felt like I was wanting for anything, except for my father, and that was not going to be. I describe in the book [that] I don't think I ever felt young again in that way. I never felt I had my 15, 16, 17 kind of years the way I maybe should have. It's a huge dent in you that it's hard to knock out and make it all smooth again.

  Billy Crystal

  Believe, Book, Thinking

  "Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 29, 2013.

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• I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach - Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did - he was a giant.

  Billy Crystal

  Kids, Years, Directors

  "Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 29, 2013.

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• So, in addition to being a full-time father of two and everything else in life, it isn't so much that I'm sitting around plotting an album. I just kinda follow my muse and wherever my interests lie, and at some point I decide, "Right. It's been a while, time to figure out how to get serious and make some music."

  DJ Shadow

  Lying, Two, Albums

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.

  Michael Gove

  Fishing, Unions, Aberdeen

  "Michael Gove's father denies his company was destroyed by EU policies". Sky News Interview, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2016.

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• I know what it's like to see someone lose their job as a result of the European Union. I saw my father lose his job, I saw his business go to the wall, I saw 24 people who he employed also lose their jobs.

  Michael Gove

  Jobs, Wall, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.

  Andrew Solomon

  Thinking, Tradition, Grew Up

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• My father was a logger. He cut timber and hauled it out of the woods and had a sawmill. They sawed it into lumber. And, you know, the mines needed things they call timbers and collars and so forth, and they used collars on the railroad track that they put the rails on. And he - that was his occupation, just a sawmill man and a logger.

  Ralph Stanley

  Cutting, Men, Track

  Source: www.npr.org

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• What kind of country are we, to participate in separating mothers and fathers from their children? Right now we have," and whatever the number is, "800,000 children 15 and under who've arrived in our country in the last two years, and where are their parents? We have not let them come in. And we can't deport them. Why send them back to the hellholes?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mother, Country, Children

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"

  Matthea Harvey

  People, Different, Might

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Powerful, Men, Vision

  Source: www.slate.com

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• My father was a very religious person. And he prayed five times a day. And he did that throughout his relationship with Ataturk - at a time when it was very brave to do because Ataturk was cutting off the heads of the imams. And people thought that that was foolhardy of my father.

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Religious, Cutting, People

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified our lives forever.

  Ted Nugent

  Real, Rock And Roll, Rocks

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life.

  James Pearse Connelly

  Mother, Teacher, Art

  "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.

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• My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese.

  Fred Armisen

  Mom, Germany, Venezuela

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January, 2012.

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• My father has this expression that you have to be able to look yourself in the eyes in the mirror, you know, and know that you're a good person. If that's true and you feel good about yourself then that's all that matters no matter what other people's perceptions are.

  Stephanie McMahon

  Eye, Mirrors, Expression

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I'm also a devoted father, and you see that side of me at the same time.

  Bill Goldberg

  Sides, Devoted

  ""Bill Goldberg Talks To 411 About Whether WWE Has Contacted Him About Returning, WWE HOF Induction, Brock Lesnar’s UFC Fight, Developing the Goldberg Character, More" by Jeffrey Harris". 411mania.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Mexican style of boxing training is different from what my father had trained me. It was good for me because it was an added knowledge, an addition to my boxing IQ.

  Tomoki Kameda

  Boxing, Mexican, Style

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, War, Home

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The historian Arthur Schlesinger has pointed out that people tend to get interested in politics again every 30 years. The universe moves in cycles of three. The number figures in everything from Pythagoras's theory that the universe is based on three to the Father-the-Son-and-the-Holy- Ghost to the three-sided pyramidal shapes that intersect in the Jewish Star of David. The notion of the mystical three, metaphysically, spiritually, and even politically, is quite interesting to me.

  Marianne Williamson

  Stars, Moving, Son

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I had a big family - two older sisters and a younger brother. My family was like moving around a lot so I lived in a lot of small towns. My father was very restless.

  Jessica Lange

  Brother, Moving, Two

  "New Again: Jessica Lange". Interview with Bob Colacello, Andy Warhol, Robert Hayes, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.

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• The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.

  Jessica Lange

  Mother, Childhood, Said

  "New Again: Jessica Lange". Interview with Bob Colacello, Andy Warhol, Robert Hayes, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.

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• I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his son and his son gave back the bread to his father. That, to me, was such a defeat of the enemies, will of the enemies, theories of the enemies, aspirations, here [in Auschwitz].

  Elie Wiesel

  Son, People, Enemy

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people and wants to go home.

  Leonard Peltier

  Home, Artist, Men

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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