Quotes with father

Quotes 61 till 80 of 272.

  • Bernard M. Baruch I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.
    New York Post (1 May 1959)
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Mark Twain I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Sigmund Freud I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Benazir Bhutto I don't fear death. I remember my last meeting with my father when he told me, You know, tonight when I will be killed, my mother and my father will be waiting for me. It makes me weepy... but I don't think it can happen unless God wants it to happen because so many people have tried to kill me.
    Destinys daughter
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I don't know how many roles I can ask my dad to play in my life, but so far, father, best friend, role model, mentor and grandfather to my children are working out quite well.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Alfred M. Gray I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
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  • Benazir Bhutto I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.
    As quoted in I never asked for power in The Guardian (15 August 2002)
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Adam Sandler I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Agnes Macphail I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Anais Nin I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Arthur Golden I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • James Joyce I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • H.G. Wells I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Laurence Sterne I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Benjamin Clementine I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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  • A. J. Foyt I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.
    A. J. Foyt
    American auto racing driver (1935 - )
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  • Butch Trucks I've gotta be the only father begging his son to leave a six-figure job to go play in a rock n' roll band!
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Benjamin Watson I've heard my father say that the man is to be the priest, the provider, and the protector of his family. He's the priest because he is the spiritual leader, monitoring and growing the spiritual temperature of his family.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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