Quotes with father

Quotes 101 till 120 of 272.

  • George Washington It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Alice Walker It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Al Sharpton James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Bill Dedman John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Barbra Streisand Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Bill Hybels Keep on praying because the Father does listen. He loves our company, he wants us to endure in prayerfulness and he is eager to do whatever is best for us.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Quentin Crisp Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    French abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Saul Alinsky Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
    Saul Alinsky
    American community organizer and writer (1909 - 1972)
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  • Agnes Smedley Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Machiavelli Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Billy Williams Mobile is a seaport town, and we ate a lot of seafood. We'd go fishing, we'd catch our fish and we'd eat our fish. It was a ritual on Saturday morning for all my family - my grandfather, my brothers, my uncles, my father - to go fishing, and then the ladies of the family would clean the fish and fry them up.
    Billy Williams
    American baseball player (1938 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Angela Carter Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Queen Elizabeth I Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
    Queen Elizabeth I
    Queen of England and Ireland (1533 - 1603)
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  • Bill Paxton My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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