Famous Quotes: Father

I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.
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I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.
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I love crispy, cool sheets.
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My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.
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Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.
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My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.
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I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.
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I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.
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The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
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I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.
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The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.
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My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.
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Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?
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Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
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But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.
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My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
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When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
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It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.
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Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
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