3610 Father Quotes for You to Enjoy

I'm cool under pressure. Cool as a cucumber, actually, eerily so. My friends and family comment on it. I think I get it from my father, the quintessential smooth operator. Sunny Hostin

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Sixty per cent of how you act is drawn from memories. And it's about who you are. I am a son, brother, husband, father, and caretaker. You connect with certain instances and emotions. Suriya

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I am married to a happy camper. He's a criminal lawyer who thinks people are inherently good and will befriend him. His father, at 93, is the same way. Susan Isaacs

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My father was an ironworker who eventually co-founded a construction business. My mother, Jeanette, was a stay-at-home mom who had been an operating-room nurse until my older brother, Jimmy, was born. Susan Lucci

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Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school. Susan Orlean

Me Writing Law School Father Three Books Law School Had Go Continue Been Years After Urge Full-Time Even Twenty Published

In the late 1990s, I wrote a book from the point of view of a young black woman who has barricaded herself in her college dorm room, pursued by a man, either real or imagined, who finally materializes as the father she has never known. Susan Shreve

Man Woman Book Father Black College Young Late Herself Finally Point Point Of View Pursued Never Wrote She Known Real Either Dorm Room View Who Her Imagined

In 'Love Story,' Oliver Barrett IV comes from generations of wealth and privilege, but when he meets working-class Jennifer Cavilleri, he can't resist. When they marry, his father disowns him, but they struggle on in love, until she's diagnosed with cancer and they can't afford the costly treatments. Susan Straight

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I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it. Susana Martinez

Father Never Known Said Always Were Denied Mexico Grandfather Grandmother

My father was a security guard. I was a security guard. Susana Martinez

Father Guard Security

My father was judgmental and kind of mean, and I'm like that. And he was very perfectionistic, and I'm like that. And he was very hard on himself, and I'm like that. Susanna Kaysen

Father Kind He Like Himself Judgmental Very Mean Hard

I was born in the city of Brantford, Ontario, Canada - but by the time I'd left high school, I'd moved seven times with my family, my father's engineering work taking us to places as far-flung as Bay City, Texas, and Wolnae-Ri in South Korea. Susanna Kearsley

Work Time Family School Father Engineering Seven Bay High City Born High School Ontario Taking Korea South Texas Left South Korea Times Canada Moved Places Us By The Time

'The Big Girls' has always seemed to me to be a story about different kinds of families - a divorced mother with a child; a father with his child and his girlfriend; a mother of three children, suffering from postpartum depression; and the rigid artificial families maintained by women in prison - all potentially perilous. Susanna Moore

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