Father Quotes

One respect in which I'm very much my father's son is how I feel about Joyce. 'Ulysses' is very much about daily life, when you get into this other guy's life and you learn about the things he cares about, and why he cares about them. And then, very indirectly, very subtly, you learn why politics has impacted his life, too. Pete Buttigieg
Life Politics Daily You Respect Son Father Too Other Cares Impacted About Guy Indirectly He Feel Joyce Learn How His Ulysses Very Get Subtly Which Them Then Much Why Daily Life Things
My surname, Buttigieg (Boot-edge-edge), is very common in my father's country of origin, the tiny island of Malta, and nowhere else. Pete Buttigieg
Father Country Else Island Very Tiny Common Origin Nowhere
I was born in 1935. But my mother and father - who were immigrants from Ireland - and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people. Pete Hamill
Depression People Mother Father Mother And Father Everybody Out Immigrants Brooklyn Born Remarkable Knew Came Were Up Ireland Who Growing Growing Up
My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it off. So he didn't get what a lot of Irish immigrants got, which was a job on the Waterfront - he didn't get that. Pete Hamill
Father Job Lost Waterfront Kick Broke Immigrants He Got His Lot Off Irish Leg Get Which Soccer Playing Set
It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins. Pete Maravich
You Sometimes Father Other Know Leaves Off Begins Where Coach Your Hard
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more. Pete Rose
Good Me You Father Practice Way Some More Only Make Taught Anything Then Dad
My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good. Pete Townshend
Good Guitar Father Dance First Band Harmonica Saxophone He Instrument Stevie Stevie Wonder Got Very Wonder Did Blow Quite Wanted Note Play Actually Suggested
What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh. Pete Townshend
Music Character People Father Took Back Laugh Kind Part Songwriting Make Because Always Upbringing Theatrical Exposure Desire Jewish
In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts. Pete Wentz
Me Thoughts World Father Past Complete Bronx Would Only Never He Attention Never Stop Longer Around Occupies Got Brain Revolves Stop The Only Thing In The Past Now Thing
I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions. Pete du Pont
Great Family Business Dangerous Father Ancestors Has-Been Gunpowder Both Almost Come Great-Grandfather Were Been His Years Very Grandfather Explosions Here Started
In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a terrible, black icing on the cake, the agony, the slow twisting, thinning and snapping of his skeleton. Everything fell apart. Peter Baynham
Cake Cancer Father Black Slow Bone Seven Everything Finally Tortured Weeks Had Fell Terrible Him Were His Years Skeleton Apart Icing Succumbed Agony Twisting Last
Anwar al-Awlaki was a U.S. citizen by virtue of his birth in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in 1971 while his Yemeni father was studying at New Mexico State University. Peter Bergen
Father Citizen Birth State Virtue State University Studying New His New Mexico Mexico While University
My father, who was a good deal older than my mother, had basically grown up with silent films; sound didn't arrive until he was 30 years old. So he took me to see silent pictures at MoMA when I was 5 or 6 years old. Peter Bogdanovich
Good Me Mother Old Father Older Films Took Silent See Had He Pictures Until Deal Sound Arrive Years Up Than Who Good Deal Grown Grown-Up Basically
We don't consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They're still magical characters, and the fact they've been around the block only adds to their magic. Peter Capaldi
Christmas Old Father Too Consider Adds Characters Magic Magical Only Fact Around Still Wizard Block Wizard Of Oz Been Oz
My father left school at the age of fourteen, so this was a man with no deep experience of formal education. Peter Carey
Education Man Age Experience School Father Left Formal Formal Education Deep Fourteen
My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician. Peter Diamandis
Family Me Doctor Father Physician Become Picking Island Up Greek Expected Grew Who
My father went to Rutgers, and I grew up in New Jersey, so I'm a great Rutgers fan. I have season tickets. Peter Eisenman
Great Father New Tickets New Jersey Up Fan Grew Season Jersey
When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father. Peter Fonda
People Father Thought Ungrateful Those Kids Out About Spoke Nasty Children Jane Two
Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in. Peter Fonda
Family Mother Father First Community Gave He His Friend Brando Shot Production Play Omaha
My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle. Peter Hook
Conservative Mother Father Sort Always Go Labour Middle
The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father. Peter Jennings
Life Father My Life One Thing Well Done The One Thing Really Thing
My father's house was on East 55th Street on 1st and 2nd Avenues. I'm fifth-generation Marino in the East 50s - I live on 57th Street. I can't be more East 50s. Peter Marino
Father Live East More House Avenues Street
I was lucky enough to spend some of my school days in Barbados, where my father was working, and this gave me a taste for hot weather. Peter Mayle
Me School Days School Father Weather Enough Gave Spend Some Hot Days Taste Where Barbados Working Lucky
When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would pass people fishing, perhaps reeling in their lines with struggling fish hooked at the end of them. Once I saw a man take a small fish out of a bucket and impale it, still wriggling, on an empty hook to use as bait. Peter Singer
Me Man People Father Walks Once Saw Hook Hooked Out Would Small Struggling Small Fish Take River Bucket Along Bait Perhaps Empty Pass Still Fish Reeling Fishing Lines End Child Often Them Use Sea Used
When I was about 12 or 13, my father gave me 'The Little Prince.' He was making sure that I knew it was a special book. I'd seen the name of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, but to me it seemed a very French name, and I was not excited about him as a person. Peter Sis
Me Book Father Seen Gave About Seemed He Excited Knew Name Prince French Him Sure Making Very Person Little Special
My father documented on film for the last time what Tibet looked like before the world got there. Peter Sis
Time World Father Before Tibet Like Looked Documented Got Film Last Last Time
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