Father Quotes - Page 34

• I learned much from my father just by watching his example. If I saw him hold a door open for someone, I learned to do the same. Kids always observe their parents and I always watched my daddy.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Kids, Doors, Daddy

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• The Founding Fathers believed that our Creator gave us certain inalienable rights. The Pledge of Allegiance simply reinforces the beliefs that led to the birth of our great nation. It is an oath of our fidelity to our country, and I am disappointed that the [9th Circuit] Court chose to rule against this American treasure.

  Dennis Hastert

  Country, Rights, Treasure

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• The Founding Fathers believed devoutly that there was a God and that the unalienable rights of man were rooted - not in the state, nor the legislature, nor in any other human power - but in God alone.

  Tom C. Clark

  Men, Rights, Legislature

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• Before I began The Cider House Rules, I thought I wanted to write about a father-son relationship that was closer, more conflicted, and ultimately more loving, than most. Then I began to think of a relationship between an old orphanage director and an unadoptable orphan - a kid who goes out into the world and fails and keeps coming back, so that the old guy ends up with someone he's got to keep.

  John Irving

  Kids, Writing, Son

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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• My character [in This Is Us], Randall, was adopted. He'd never met either of his biological parents so he seeks out and finds his biological father after 36 years. So that's where we find my character at the beginning of the show.

  Sterling K. Brown

  Character, Years, Parent

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I was the youngest kid. When I was five, my sisters were 17, 19, and 21, already becoming women. I would see how different they would be around one another and around men, even my father.

  Christian Louboutin

  Kids, Men, Becoming A Woman

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My father was quite an attractive guy. He was very intelligent and very amusing. I didn't like him. He was always very nice to me but I just didn't like him.

  Truman Capote

  Nice, Intelligent, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always wince a little bit when I send me to each of my new books. I wince at submitting myself to my father's judgment. But, of course, he's such a fond father that he always writes back, saying it's the greatest thing ever written.

  Emma Donoghue

  Book, Writing, Littles

  "Emma Donoghue's New Novel Follows "The Wonder" Of Starvation". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 17, 2016.

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• My father would never have come to visit, he detested Eva's [Braun] choice in a man and the fact [Adolf] Hitler had set her up in an apartment. To him it was deeply humiliating that she was living with a man at his own whim at an apartment he was paying for.

  Gretl Braun

  Men, Choices, Facts

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• I would have to say that my mother's entrepreneurial perspective, and that of her father's, are very evident in my own outlook.

  Lewis Schiff

  Mother, Perspective, Entrepreneurial

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A woman was the property of her father or her husband and that remained true right into the twentieth century. It wasn't until 1975 that women had a guaranteed right to serve on federal juries.

  Noam Chomsky

  Husband, Century, Jury

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• When I was invited to go to Wuhan, I didn't know anything about it, so I looked up the Wikipedia about Wuhan. I discovered that part of Wuhan used to be Hankou, and then I realised that my great grandmother came from Hankou. My grandmother and father were both born in Hankou. Of all the places in China, it is the most amazing place to have asked for my exhibition. I needed to go back where my family comes from!

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Grandmother, Wikipedia, Exhibitions

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• We don't play golf often [with kids] because they don't play that much anymore - because their kids don't play. It's like anything else - fathers these days end up in the parks on the weekends and they have their kids into lacrosse or soccer or whatever it might be.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Soccer, Kids, Golf

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• I play the Father/Son every year on the PGA TOUR Champions. I split it between Jackie and Gary as my playing partners.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Son, Years, Play

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• We also play a Father/Son at home and I play with Steve, too. I try to mix it up. We play two or three times a year, but that's about it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Home, Son, Years

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Mother, Texas, African American

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• [My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Growing Up, Parent, Born

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• At age 20 I went to go find my father in Nigeria. And after much toil, I finally figured out exactly where he was. And there's something about seeing your father for the first time - my mother destroyed all pictures of him.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Mother, Age, Firsts

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• There is a tradition of "modernist" theology arising out of post-Kantian thought - Fichte was the real father of it, but Schleiermacher and others also developed it - which might have more promise if it had greater influence on popular religion.

  Allen W. Wood

  Real, Promise, Might

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at the time of our independence: to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance, and disease, which have afflicted millions and millions of our people.

  Manmohan Singh

  Ignorance, People, Priorities

  "PM's McKinsey Quarterly Interview". Interview with Rajat K. Gupta, archivepmo.nic.in. 2005.

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• The critiques I received from my father's community didn't actually have to do with any of the things I'd been afraid of - spiritual or cultural aspects - they were more annoyed that I'd killed off this character or those characters hadn't hooked up or I'd done an open ending and it didn't give them a sense of closure that they were expecting.

  Eden Robinson

  Spiritual, Character, Giving

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

  Benjamin Franklin

  School, Son, Years

  Source: www.foundingfatherquotes.com

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• My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Library, Divinity

  Source: www.foundingfatherquotes.com

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• I actually think, when you're young, ambitions are somewhat common - you want to prove yourself. It may grow out of different life experiences. You may want to prove that you are worthy of the admiration of the demanding father. You may want to prove that you are worthy of the love of an absent father.

  Barack Obama

  Ambition, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• You could analyze me and say that my father leaving and being absent was a motivator for early ambition, trying to prove myself to this apparition who had vanished. You could argue that me being a mixed kid in a place where there weren't a lot of black kids around might have spurred on my ambitions. You could go through a whole litany of things that sparked me wanting to do something important.

  Barack Obama

  Ambition, Kids, Leaving

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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