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My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my father ...

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My father was a man, and I know the sex pretty well.

But I got through the review, for all their Latin and French; I did, and if you doubt me, you just l...

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The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father's law in punishing the trans...

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... He spoke in the deep tenderness of one about to leave his treasure amid perils and foes, where h...

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I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me...

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My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadn...

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My father was never anti-anything in our house.

The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I ...

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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are ...

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The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson....

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When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the m...

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A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to...

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My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there...

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When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn...

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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of...

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My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

You cannot always depend on prayers to be answered the way you want them answered but you can always...

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Fulton J. SheenFulton Sheen's Wartime Prayer Book

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I ...

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On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's ho...

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All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with Go...

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My mother said my father had a drop of dragon blood.”“Two drops. That, or a cock six feet long.

My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it.

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George R. R. MartinA Dance with Dragons

May the Father judge him justly.

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George R. R. MartinA Feast for Crows

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person ...

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Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the pris...

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I remembered some people who lived across the street from our home as we were being taken away. When...

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I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, i...

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When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman ...

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You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and,...

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Glenn BeckThe 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life

My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianis...

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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

I believe that it should be the blessing of every child to be born into a home where that child is w...

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I'm a father that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courag...

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She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my...

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I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a voi...

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He died at the wrong time, when there was much to be clarified and established. They hadn’t even sta...

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A boy trudged down the sidewalk dragging a fishing pole behind him. A man stood waiting with his han...

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was s...

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My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his ...

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

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I...

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My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father tol...

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I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other ma...

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While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per t...

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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

I think my father gave me a great reverence for medical science. He was about as opposite to the per...

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We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a ...

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Not everyone knows what it is to have your father’s rival’s penis inches from your nose.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love ...

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We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from se...

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Can you think what the Mirror of Erised shows us all?" Harry shook his head."Let me explain. The hap...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a ba...

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I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Pa...

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We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class ...

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I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was...

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My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

Rationalizing him and the glass pipe, Dad smoked crack, but he was not a crackhead; it was just some...

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Janet MockRedefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood

'Yes' is the mother of all positive words, next to 'love.' Maybe 'love' is the father of all positiv...

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My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out...

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It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

I think Chris Martin is younger than I am, but when I met him, I felt like I was talking to my fathe...

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My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father ca...

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Will you remember this day, Gogol?" his father had asked, turning back to look at him, his hands pre...

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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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