Famous Quotes: Father

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
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My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked.
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I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.
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My father was in the First World War.
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My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
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I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.
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Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.
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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 get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
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I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
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I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.
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My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.
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The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.
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I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country.
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My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.
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Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.
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I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.
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Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.
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