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" Quotes and Sayings About my father

The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.
Diversity Grow Father
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

Good More Work Able
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For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.

Heaven Father Will Brother
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My experiences of traveling abroad and going to Italy with my father, having to break down a gigantic electric chair to get on trains. You've got three minutes. You go to Pompeii and there are shockingly few accessible hotels in a city that was covered in volcanic ash.

Accessible Experience Traveling Abroad
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I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.

Always Prepared Care Father
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I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I've heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

Able About Always Anything
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I have been lucky enough to work with great coaches. My father was also a coach, and my position in central midfield requires tactical knowledge.

Also Been Central Coach
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I’ve loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.

Race Regularly Watch Father
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Adversity Always Bit Bore
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I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.

Agreement Father Mother Taught
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My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the world in terms of symbols, which is hard when you just want to make toast.

Father Hard Joke Just
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

Childhood Father Me Take
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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

Change Childhood Fact Father
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I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

Before Father Hate Hated
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My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

Art Central Fact Father
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I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

Anybody Anybody Else Else Father
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My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.

Alabama Because Crow Democrats
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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

Memorize Poems Poetry Quite
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I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

Boy Dad Father He
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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Always Die Father Five
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My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that's what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

Always Double Father God
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If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Choice Everybody Father Had
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My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.

Call Childhood Family Family And Friends
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My father passed away in 2002, but yes, we were pretty close. I loved him a lot.

Away Close Father Him
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This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

Believed Could Deeply Enjoyed
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I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.

Am Because Business Comfortably
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Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

American Average Average American Before
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I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.

Actual Allow Anything Before
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My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.

Baptist Father Methodist Mother
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When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.

Christ Church Conversion Died
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I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

Baptist Christ Church Committed
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Among Considered Equivalent Father
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All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love.

About Dresser Earned Family
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My father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don't want to show up.

Care Even Family Father
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I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.

Am Away Begun Entrusted
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My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.

Around Came Carries Father
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I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

Father Finger He I Remember
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My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

Caught Cure Died Disease
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Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'

Apply Boston Even Father
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I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in golf. We have all become resigned to the fact that he has determined that he won't be beaten.

Am Any Ashamed Beaten
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My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

Even Father Me Music
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That is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died; we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of my life sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle - beautiful, inaccessible, obsolete: a fine, white, flying myth.

Beautiful Bottle Childhood Died
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My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen.

Because Died Dying Father
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I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Away Decision Father God
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My father fought in World War II at the Battle of the Bulge.

Battle Father Fought War
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I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

Boy Brother Could Father
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Mother Protected Father
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I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.

Ancient Child Father Grandmother
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.

Proud Heavy Fast Enough
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.

Habit Films Father Absent
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