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• It is not unknown for fathers with abrasive daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest and I had long ago become accustom to being called Ophelia Daphne Flavia damn it.

  Alan Bradley

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• I grew up to have my father’s looks, my father’s speech patterns, my father’s posture, my father’s opinions, and my mother’s contempt for my father.

  Jules Feiffer

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• My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.

  Juliet Mills

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• He’s just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John’s like that. He’s a very rare man, a very good man, and I’ve had a good life with him. I’m proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny’s fame.

  June Carter Cash

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• My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

  June Jordan

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  There are two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

  Marlo Thomas

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  Tags in People, World, Better

• The best thing a father can do for his son is love his mother.

  Adriana Trigiani

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  Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

  John F. Kennedy

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  Tags in Orphan, Thousand

• I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it’s all said and done, I’ll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.

  Rickey Henderson

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  Tags in Done, Normal

• In our house, Mother’s Day is every day. Father’s Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn’t cut for us.

  Margaret Heffernan

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  Tags in Parents, Count

• I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I’d find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in ‘Friday Night Lights.’ It was surreal.

  Garrett Hedlund

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  Tags in Farm, Radio

• My father is actually a quarry man – he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

  P. J. Harvey

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  Tags in Farm, Sheep

• My dad used to say to me, ‘You look more like me than I do.’

  Dhani Harrison

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  Tags in Used, Look

• My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.

  Robert Harris

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  Tags in Took, Newspaper

• I’ve never been desperate to please my father.

  Rebecca Hall

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  Tags in Desperate, Please

• I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of ‘Dallas.’

  Larry Hagman

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  Tags in Dallas, Creed
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  A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

  John James Audubon

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  Tags in Conservation, Borrowed
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  I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.

  Sigmund Freud

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  Tags in Childhood, Protection

• I only saw my father twice a year. If I’d seen him all the time I’d probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

  Joe Strummer

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  Tags in Strict, Twice

• My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I’m from Canada. I left there at 16.

  David Steinberg

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  Tags in Left, Synagogue