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Father Quotes
"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."
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"My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby."
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"My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad."
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"They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father."
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"Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming."
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"And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan."
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"As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end."
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"Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful."
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"The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive."
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"I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney."
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"My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet."
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"Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system."
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"'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political."
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"Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck."
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"Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think."
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"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."
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"My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew."
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"The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being."
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"He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies."
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"Peter Boyle on Everybody Loves Raymond is more of an insane Dad."
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"As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted."
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"Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out."
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"Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish."
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"Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along."
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"My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it."
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"The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins."
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