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I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports pe...

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My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That ...

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I truly think comedy is - being funny is DNA. My dad was a doctor, a wonderful doctor, and people st...

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When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if h...

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From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c...

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Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialize...

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In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms ar...

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My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It...

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Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his ...

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Perhaps it's true that all men love their fathers, no matter how terrible the things they do to thei...

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Her father had learned only one thing in prison. Not humility, nor patience, nor understanding...Mar...

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I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. ...

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I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier...

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My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything...

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It's because I haven't courage,' said Samuel. 'I could never quite take the responsibility. When the...

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The dream thatwe are our fathers. I walked to the Brod,41without knowing why, and looked intomy refl...

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Jonathan Safran FoerEverything Is Illuminated

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Darling,You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am wri...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

He promised us that everything would be OK. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be O...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

And even as she holds on to him, like she's drowning, she can feel the familiar anger returning, lik...

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Jonathan TropperOne Last Thing Before I Go

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In ...

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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results ...

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I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reade...

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My father's values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals....

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Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with o...

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If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does no...

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My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has ...

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My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

Her eyes traced the sleek shape of the table's legs, the sinuous curves of its corners, the gleam of...

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I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of...

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My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I ...

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My father's love was always strongMy mother's glamour lives on and on.Yet still inside I felt alone,...

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Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resou...

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I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade educ...

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My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines...

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A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion ...

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My father was often angry when I was most like him.

I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-""The world does not forgive mistakes so qui...

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My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my ...

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When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build ...

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I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainly been affected ...

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When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a...

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When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a...

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When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a...

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When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a...

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It had been my father's way to remove obstructions, to repair washouts in old trails, to leave each ...

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My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there...

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Peace and not war is the father of all things.

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in...

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I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - b...

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He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotio...

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I want my father to be just my father, the way he has always been, not a separate person with an ear...

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There were a few other moves of his father's he could do without as well - the sucker punches, the r...

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Margaret AtwoodOryx and Crake

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things t...

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My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my m...

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My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured...

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My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a lo...

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If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a goo...

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When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes...

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My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat be...

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life ...

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We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

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Martin SheenAlong the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father play...

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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You ne...

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[My dad] didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hai...

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But then, staring at the label on one crate, which readSWORD-CANE-DLUBECK SHOE TREE-HORASUITS (3)-HO...

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Michael ChabonThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

It's a sad commentary on our time - to use a phrase much favored by my late father - that people inc...

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My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a li...

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I just wish I could understand my father.

Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were h...

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I once attended a birthday party where Danny Kaye dropped in to entertain the birthday boy and his g...

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A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guid...

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But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.

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Mitch AlbomFor One More Day

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house ...

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Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked t...

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I'm bored," she said."Learn how to tap-dance," he suggested, without turning around.

I will not be my father's dog.

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Neil GaimanTrigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

On and on they went these nevers, but despite their random natures I found myself following almost e...

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On and on they went these nevers, but despite their random natures I found myself following almost e...

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My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in e...

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HE LIKED TO COOK AND LAUGH AND SING, COULD START A FIRE WITH HIS HANDS, FIX THINGS THAT WERE BROKEN,...

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From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me th...

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I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that ...

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The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.

God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two place...

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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

It is the duty of every father... to write fairy tales for his children.

I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. ...

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I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business to...

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My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit ...

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My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked clas...

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These young-marrying, contemporaries or juniors of the Beat Generation, have often expressed themsel...

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A person who goes in search of God is wasting his time. He can walk a thousand roads and join many r...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept