Father Quotes - Page 6

• My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

  Indira Gandhi

  Political, Saint, Statesmen

  "Indira's Coup". The New York Review of Books, September 18, 1975.

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• Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Brother, Stars

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• Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fathers Day, Dad, Son

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Husband, Dad, Toys

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Dad, Firsts, Dramatic

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• It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

  Harper Lee

  Dad, War, Gun

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Son, Loss, Lost Friendship

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• Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Marriage, Fathers Day

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• It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

  Gertrude Stein

  Funny, Son, Men

  Everybody's Autobiography ch. 2 (1937)

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• As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

  Gloria Swanson

  Life, Daddy, Inspire

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

  Harry S. Truman

  Failure, 4th Of July, President

  Harry S. Truman (1966). “Good old Harry: the wit and wisdom of Harry S. Truman”

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• My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

  Peter De Vries

  Hate, Waiting, Style

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?

  Dionne Warwick

  Boyfriend, Men, Careers

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• I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

  H. G. Wells

  Funny, New Year, Time

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Rights of Man”, p.15, Penguin UK

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• My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.

  Louis Adamic

  Life, Fathers Day, Grandpa

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• There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.

  Alison Lohman

  Fathers Day, Men, Father Son

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• You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.

  Lynn Johnston

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.

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• What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.

  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Fathers Day, Dull

  Mary Mapes Dodge (2012). “Hans Brinker”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

  Broderick Crawford

  Boyfriend, Mother, Dad

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• I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Artist, Firefighter, Tears

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My father taught me how to substitute realities.

  Mira Sorvino

  Dad, Reality, Tears

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• My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

  Anna Lee

  Boyfriend, Prayer, Dad

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• Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Alternatives, Way, Possibility

  Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Touchstone

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• Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

  Solomon

  Fathers Day, Mother, Your Mom

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• My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Country

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2005). “The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction”, Barnes & Noble

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