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• Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father’s influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination.

  Richard Reeves

  Topics in Father, Health

  Tags in Without

• As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Father

• As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear – we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Father

• I always saw myself as really ugly. My father even told me I was ugly because I would shave my head and look like a boy.

  Asia Argento

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Myself

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

  June Jordan

  Topics in Father

• At my father’s request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

  Carl Spitteler

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Law

• Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.

  Gerald McRaney

  Topics in Father

• My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he’d tell us very softly, “I don’t want to hear those words.”

  Charles Moore

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Ever, Pray

• I’m a good son, a good father, a good husband – I’ve been married to the same woman for 30 years. I’m a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, ‘You know, that’s part of history.’

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Good

• If I’d seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I’d intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it’s your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Topics in Father, Mother

  Tags in Care

• There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.

  David O. McKay

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Revolutionary

• While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that’s got hold of a fox.

  Barry McGuigan

  Topics in Father

• My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father’s first marriage who were rock ‘n’ roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Culture, Expose, Marriage

• As I have got older and become a father, there’s less and less time for films.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Time

• When I felt rather overcome with my father’s opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Opposition

• My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Affection

• Becoming a father isn’t difficult, but it’s very difficult to be a father.

  Wilhelm Busch

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Difficult

• If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there – not because you’ve done a comedy performance but because you’re talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.

  Roger McGough

  Topics in Children, Father

• My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Hard

• 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

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Influenced