Father Quotes - Page 38

• I always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he wasn't at all a politician, in no sense of the word. He was sustained in his work only by a blind faith in India - he was preoccupied in such an obsessive way by the future of India. We understood each other.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Thinking, India

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• I began to associate with Mahatma Gandhi when he came and went in our house - together with my father and mother he was on the executive committee. After independence I worked with him a lot - in the period when there were the troubles between Hindus and Muslims, he assigned me to take care of the Muslims. To protect them.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, House, Independence

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• Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and my father.

  Indira Gandhi

  Men, Understanding, Great Men

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• No one wanted that marriage, no one. Even Mahatma Gandhi wasn't happy about it. As for my father...it's not true that he opposed it, as people say, but he wasn't eager for it. I suppose because the fathers of only daughters would prefer to see them get married as late as possible.

  Indira Gandhi

  Daughter, People, Married

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.

  Indira Gandhi

  Beautiful, Goal, Generations

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I was always arguing, I argued with everyone - with my father, with the leaders I had known since I was a child...and one day, it was in 1955, one of them exclaimed, 'You do nothing but criticize! If you think you can correct things, correct them. Go ahead, why don't you try?' Well, I could never resist a challenge, so I tried.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Party, Thinking

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• People who say it was her father who prepared her for the post of prime minister, it was her father who launched her, are wrong.

  Indira Gandhi

  People, Prime, Ministers

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.

  Indira Gandhi

  Helping, Suspects, Consequence

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• My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands in politics - to meet people, to know their games, their secrets.

  Indira Gandhi

  Home, Hands, Games

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• My husband lived in Lucknow. My father lived in Delhi, of course. So I shuttled between Delhi and Lucknow and...naturally, if my husband needed me on days when I was in Delhi, I ran back to Lucknow. But if it was my father who needed me, on the days when I was in Lucknow. And...yes, my husband got angry. And he quarreled. We quarreled. We quarreled a lot. It's true.

  Indira Gandhi

  Husband, Delhi, Needed

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• Whether when I was a child and fought the British in the Monkey brigade, or when I was a girl and wanted to have children, or when I was a woman and devoted myself to my father, making my husband angry. Each time I stayed involved all the way in my decision, and took the consequences. Even if I was fighting for things that didn't concern India.

  Indira Gandhi

  Girl, Children, Husband

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I said that my father was not a politician. I, instead, think I am. But not in the sense of being interested in a political career - rather in the sense that I think it necessary to strive to build a certain India, the India I want.

  Indira Gandhi

  Thinking, Careers, Political

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I met Indira Gandhi in her office in the government palace. The same office that had been her father's - large, cold and plain. She was sitting, small and slender, behind a bare desk. When I entered, she got up and came forward to give me her hand, then sat down again and cut the preliminaries short by fixing me with a gaze that meant: Go ahead with the first question, don't waste time, I really have no time to waste.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Cutting, Government, Hands

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the formal attributes of images.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Light, Skills, Photographer

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

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• It's never too late to make the right decision in your life. I want fathers to go grab their sons, tell them you love them and be more involved in their lives.

  Cory Hardrict

  Son, Decision, Too Late

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• We need our Dads right now, we need strong fathers. I really want fathers to get close to their children.

  Cory Hardrict

  Strong, Children, Dad

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• My father didn't want to go to Manhattan for me, and I came to Manhattan and I have done a great job in Manhattan. And then I wrote a best-seller and I wrote numerous best-sellers.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Manhattan, Done

  Source: townhall.com

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• With all the new technology, DVD's, Blu-Ray's, NetFlex, everyone has access to older movies. There is a new generation now of Freddy fans. Fathers that saw the movie originally, these guys are dads now, and they let their kids watch them.

  Robert Englund

  Dad, Kids, Technology

  Source: graveconcernsezine.com

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• Thank God I have the things that my mother and father taught me, the things that I've learned from pastors and spiritual teachers and the books that I read.

  Larry Gatlin

  Mother, Spiritual, Teacher

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern astrophysics, and time became well understood going back billions of years. So enlightened religious people, as a necessity, had to shed the magical elements of the Bible. A little known fact is that Thomas Jefferson did just that. There's something called the Jefferson Bible. It's not widely publicized because it sort of conflicts with certain people's ideas of what the founding fathers were.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religious, Years, Civilization

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have to put my father over because he really taught me a lot, especially when it comes to out-of-the-ring psychology and how to react when you're approached by fans after a show or in the airport. It might sound silly, but a lot of those things come into play when you're playing a character.

  Randy Orton

  Silly, Character, Play

  Source: www.espn.com

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• It's this amazing combination to play, really, of somebody who's actually very fragile and hasn't really grown up properly yet - at least in a healthy environment - and has suffered immense loss with her dad - like that line where she says, [in the words of her father [King George VI], "Yes, 'Elizabeth is my pride but Margaret's my joy." She holds onto it!

  Vanessa Kirby

  Kings, Dad, Pride

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• My grandfather was a prominent executive at Chevron (oil), and of course my father is a fairly radical and progressive environmentalist. But he was also a very active Democrat and pacifist. More importantly, he was one of the best storytellers I've ever met. I think that trait has been passed down the line, even to my kids.

  James Redford

  Kids, Thinking, Oil

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• There is also a philosophy of less-is-more, and a little dignity that never hurt anybody. There are many qualities to admire about our father's generation.

  James Redford

  Hurt, Philosophy, Quality

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Jesus has said "Come, blessed of my Father, take the seat in the kingdom prepared for you, because I was hungry you gave me food, I was thirsty you have me drink, I was naked you clothed me, I was homeless you took me home and I was sick you visited me." And we are just doing that.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Blessed, Home

  Source: mattersindia.com

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