Father Quotes - Page 30

• I have two definitions of success - one on the basketball court and one in my personal life. In basketball, success means making my teammates better, winning basketball games and winning championships. In my personal life, success means being a good father to my sons and raising them to be strong men; taking care of my family and being a good friend; and using my influence to make a difference in the community.

  Dwyane Wade

  Basketball, Strong, Mean

  Source: mochamanstyle.com

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• Every morning when I wake and every night when I go to sleep, I'm thinking about what I can do to become a better father and a better person.

  Dwyane Wade

  Morning, Sleep, Thinking

  Source: mochamanstyle.com

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• My biggest achievement - besides being drafted into the NBA - was becoming a father. Being a father has made me experience things that have contributed to my maturity and personal growth.

  Dwyane Wade

  Maturity, Nba, Achievement

  Source: mochamanstyle.com

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• I think we all have something in our life's experience that makes us feel different. It's whether we have a gay parent or we have an alcoholic mother or maybe we don't know our father. And it's something that we feel bad about initially because we think we're abnormal. What's abnormal is our assumption that there's something called 'normal.'

  Amy Richards

  Mother, Gay, Thinking

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• Nobody ever asks men about the work-life balance, and I just find that interesting, because clearly, I would imagine most men also want to be good fathers, and I'm sure they want to be good partners.

  Katie Couric

  Men, Interesting, Balance

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• All around the country, individuals are choosing to redefine their lives and the pursuit of happiness in ways much closer to the original notion put forth by our Founding Fathers. Their notion of the "pursuit of happiness" wasn't just about acquiring money and power, but about doing your part to add to the civic happiness of the community.

  Arianna Huffington

  Country, Pursuit Of Happiness, Community

  "Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success, Creating Balance and Making Good Decisions". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting the church as a perfect thing.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Mother, Perfect

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• My father was a steel worker and Martin's [Schulz] grandfather was a miner in Saarland. In these occupations, there is a particular awareness of solidarity. That creates links that aren't present in other relationships.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Steel, Links, Occupation

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We live in a reward-centered society. When I was a child, my father used to say, "It's not whether you win or lose but how well you play the game." I used to think that was about sports, but as an adult, I realize what I create, do, etc., is more important than winning a prize.

  Renee Lawless

  Sports, Children, Winning

  "Putting Life in Perspective: Renée Lawless". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I was raised in a family where my father was the first one to go to college.

  Jim Gaffigan

  College, Firsts, Raised

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• Think about all of the families where the father is a doctor and the son is a doctor or generations of coal miners. Why did they go into that line of work? Because that's what they were taught. Or was it in their genes? It's not an either/or question. It's both. I was inclined in that way. I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

  Rosanne Cash

  Growing Up, Son, Thinking

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• Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that that could be someone's father or someone's mother and they have a story.

  Syesha Mercado

  Mother, Stories, Remember

  "American Idol’s Syesha Mercado: On Honesty, Acceptance, and Being Present". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think I'm a father, but a father of three kids! :)

  John Petrucci

  Kids, Thinking, Three

  Source: www.rockbook.hu

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• I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the ones that we were interested in.

  John Petrucci

  Real, Play, Stories

  Source: www.rockbook.hu

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• The work that I've been trying to do with violence against women and children comes from seeing quite a bit of violence. I just think it's important that we try to help the young boys who are watching the fathers do it - because if it's OK for the fathers to do it, then these young boys are watching their dads and going, well, nothing's happening to them, so maybe this is OK. But actually, this violence needs to stop in the sandpits.

  Kelly LeBrock

  Dad, Children, Thinking

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• I think it's sensible to plan for the future now I'm a father and a husband.

  Andy Murray

  Husband, Thinking, Sensible

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• He [my father] didn't have a basement workshop as such, but I know that he did build things, construct things, repair things. My mother, likewise, was sewing and doing activities that often take place in a household.

  Paul Smith

  Mother, Basements, Workshops

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• I was raised by my grandmother. She had a very difficult time, raised all her kids, my father and everybody. Listening to those stories and finding her so strong, poised. Anybody who came close to her was made to feel blessed. And at the same time, it didn't matter how strong a person was, in front of her, their head would go down. She carried through her life raising everybody. That is my model.

  Rajashree Choudhury

  Strong, Blessed, Kids

  Interview with Zoe Kors, issuu.com. May 3, 2013.

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• It's also hard for me to understand growing up not knowing where I came from. I searched for my parents - I started when I was twenty; I found both my mother and my father when I was twenty-two. Trying to catch up on twenty-two years that we can never get back, trying to reconcile that - that's a hard thing for me.

  Michael Franti

  Mother, Growing Up, Years

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

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• If we fulfill our responsibility to the Constitution, the Supreme Court will be filled with superior legal minds who will pursue the one agenda that our founding fathers intended in writing the Constitution: justice, rather than political or personal goals.

  Chuck Grassley

  Responsibility, Writing, Goal

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• So I went home and I told my mom that I wanted to quit and be an actress and she said, “Huh, that sounds fascinating. It’s wonderful!” And I told my father and he literally said, “I don’t care if you want to be an elephant trainer if it makes you happy.”

  Gena Rowlands

  Mom, Home, Elephants

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.

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• In the Apostolic Exhortation 'Amoris Laetitia,' Pope Francis speaks only in one point about homosexual tendencies. As did the last synod, the Holy Father speaks about the question of how to handle the situation when, in the family, a member of the family discovers him or herself having a homosexual tendency.

  Christoph Schonborn

  Lasts, Speak, Pope

  "Cardinal Schonborn on 'Amoris Laetitia': Pope Francis Knows What He Is Talking About". Interview with Deborah Castellano Lubov, zenit.org. April 12, 2016.

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• There is no doubt where the founding fathers stood on this issue. They believed that people of faith should be permitted to express themselves in public. They believed that this country was big enough and free enough to allow expression of on enormous variety of views and beliefs.

  John Cornyn

  Country, Views, Expression

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• [The founding fathers] believed that freedom of expression included religious views and beliefs, so long as the government did not force people to worship in a particular matter and remain neutral on what those views and beliefs were.

  John Cornyn

  Religious, Views, Expression

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• You can look at founding father Alexander Hamilton nevertheless assuring - assuring - the countrymen in Federalist 78 that the role of the federal courts under the proposed Constitution would be limited.

  Sam Brownback

  Roles, Looks, Would Be

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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