"I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it."

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"I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it."

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"President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."

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"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."

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"I am blessed to have Mom and Dad."

Kevin Eubanks, American Musician

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"I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education."

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"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy."

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"I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it."

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Mohith Agadi, Indian Poet

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Explore more quotes by Shmuel Y. Agnon

"I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen."

God

"I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel."

Books

"Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk."

Man

"At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere."

Age

"As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile."

Cities

"When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul."

Nature

"Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people."

Love

"After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem."

Wisdom

"Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing."

Memory

"The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital."

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