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Father Quotes

I think I'm a good father. As a parent, you have the responsibility to create a foundation for your children so that they can meet all the challenges.

Billy Dee Williams

Good Father Children Responsibility

I've always been quite driven. I take after my father.

Father Always Driven Take Been

All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.

Marianne Williamson

Father Mother Wish Self-Love Perfect

My mom's a lawyer. She was part of the group that wrote the bar exam. My father is a dentist. They've always worked.

Daniel Schwartz

Father Mom Lawyer Group She Bar

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

Father Death Writing Play Know Him

My father raised me from the time I was 12 years old. And it would never occur to me that I wouldn't be strong - I wasn't raised like that.

Elizabeth Reaser

Father Time Be Strong Me Strong Old

I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime.

Father Childhood Actor Bohemian Very

My father wasn't there the majority of the time. My father, someone who I always honored and looked up to, had been in the military; he had been to war. I would hear stories about different experiences he went through, but as I got older, my father moved away.

Father Time War Someone Military Up

My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

Life Father Myself Men Me World

My mother wanted a conservative, secure life, and she has been married to my father since she was 18... A lot of hard work went into that marriage and a lot of not getting what you want.

Life Work Hard Work Marriage Father

Directors have good and bad movies. My father also made some flop movies, and he had bigger hits, too. That should not determine anything.

Good Father Bad Good And Bad Movies

Moms and dads don't last forever. If you've got unfinished business, we need to face that, and that's not easy. Every child wants to love their mother and their father. Love is the most important thing, and when they feel rejected and unloved, that hole can never be filled by anyone else.

Love Father Mother Business Child

I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class.

Bharati Mukherjee

Father Home Creative Me Writing

I took after my father.

Father Took After

Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.

Martin Lewis Perl

Work Father Mother School Printing

I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.

Father Character Look Go Movies Up

My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me.

Father Mother Me Mentor Uncle He

I didn't want to use my father's name. I don't think I will ever want to use his influence... Never have I gone around asking people, 'Do you know who I am...' Even if it's to cut a line at the airport.

Dulquer Salmaan

Father I Am People Think Name You

My father was second-generation Chinese-American, born in 1923 in California. My mother emigrated to the States from China when she was in her early twenties, in part to escape the political turmoil in China.

Father Mother Political Early Born

I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.

Rickey Henderson

Father Man Baseball Happy Me House

Real change, the kind we have not seen in decades, is only going to come from outside the system. And it's only going to come from a man who's spent his entire life doing what others said could not be done. My father is a fighter.

Life Change Father Man Doing Done

I had a great bond with my father. Even when I was a kid, my bond with my dad made me want to be a father myself one day.

Father Great Myself Day Me Bond

My father never got films to our dinner table. It was never the case with us as well that our father works in films, and we know so many actors. It was like him going to work like any other father. In fact, my school friends would ask me if I have met a certain actor, and I would tell them that I haven't, which they found strange.

Work Father School Me Dinner Table

I never really told my parents that I wanted to be a pop star or anything. They just knew that I was totally obsessed with music. Funnily enough, my father always used to say that he didn't think I could sing.

Father Music Parents Think Enough

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