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Father Quotes

My mother's rules had to do with feminine deportment, so I never played hard enough to break a toy or muddy my dress. My father's rules had to do with never shaming the family by even a hint of scandal, and not providing business rivals with an opportunity to kidnap me or throw acid in my face.

Bharati Mukherjee

Family Father Mother Business Dress

Even with my father and brother dying, I didn't quite process the grief.

Father Grief Brother Process Dying

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

Father Character Dance Poetry Loved

My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics.

Father Politics Job Journalism Own

So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.

Positive Love Father Women Today Up

Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art. And that's where they pretty much parted company. Father... anything that was abstract would to him automatically be not very good.

David Rockefeller

Nature Good Beauty Father Mother

I came from a single parent household. And I had a bad example of what a husband and father could be and how irresponsible a father could be. So because of that, I didn't want to get married or have kids.

Father Husband Parent Bad Want Get

Parenting is something that I got early, because when you grow up without a father being there, and you see a single mother struggle to feed the kids, you do not want to put your own blood through that.

Father Mother Parenting Struggle You

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

Father Experience You Understand

There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.

Justin Townes Earle

Father Single Word Listens Says

I had been raised in the mountains of Idaho by a father who distrusted many of the institutions that people take for granted - public education, doctors and hospitals, and the government.

Education Father Mountains Government

It's a hard call, but I've no desire to live my children's lives. I think my job as a father is to protect them, to allow them a safe place to grow up and to teach them what I've learned.

Father Live Children Job Think Grow

Father Time is whether you're an athlete or not an athlete. Father Time is always around. I think I'm just special.

Bernard Hopkins

Father Time Think You Athlete Just

My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.

Marcus Samuelsson

Father Loved You Historical Take Us

I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

Life Learning Father Myself Focus

It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Father Young Become Wonderful Get

'Like Father, Like Son' gave me the opportunity to show when it is not good with a father.

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Good Father Son Opportunity Me Show

My father has always been interested in discarding the past. He's never much liked China or the whole idea behind China or Chinese ways of thinking. He's always been much more attracted to American ways of thinking. He feels Americans are more open - they tell you what they think - and he's very much that way himself.

David Henry Hwang

Father Past Think Thinking American

I've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want to have my work appreciated, but for some reason - maybe it's because my father disapproved of almost everything I did - in some secret place in my being was a desire to avoid success.

Work Success Father Famous Place

I remember my father's last race very clearly when he drove at Hockenheim in front of 100,000 people and I was sitting next to him on the roof of his car and waving to the fans. That was the moment when I thought: 'One day I want to do the same.'

Father Car Moment Day People Want

I feel like every conversation with my father is like an M. Night Shyamalan movie; 90 minutes of build-up to no payoff.

Father Night Feel Conversation Like

A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if they've had a competitive relationship with their own father.

Father God Relationship People Own

Growing up, my father coached my basketball team, and my mother drove me into St. Louis for various rehearsals between musical productions and Radio Disney.

Taylor Louderman

Father Mother Me Team Growing Up Up

Initially, my father opposed the idea of joining films and did not want me to move out, but now I'm closest to him and have his full support.

Father Support Me Now Want Out

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