Father Quotes

My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us. Ta-Nehisi Coates
Me Anger Anxiety Father Black Exactly Exactly What All-Around Someone More Steal Beat He Because Around Felt Leather His Sting Very Than Afraid Happening Which Might Us Who Away Applied Belt
I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston. Taiye Selasi
Mother Father Ghana Arabia London Born Boston Sure Up Where Grew Lives Nigerian Saudi Saudi Arabia
My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music. Taj Mahal
Music Humanity World Mother Father Big Caribbean Open Open Door American Door
My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it. Taj Mahal
Strong Father Country Side Caribbean About Shame Came Africa Grandparents Connection
My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments. Tamara Ecclestone
Life Man Matter Father My Life Nothing Never Match Self-Made His Accomplishments Started
My first direct encounter with the military was when I joined ROTC as a graduate student, although my father, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, can trace the military service in our family all the way back to the Revolutionary War. Tammy Duckworth
Service War Family Father Marine Corps First Military Back Our Way Corps Direct Joined Student Trace Although Encounter Revolutionary Revolutionary War Graduate Graduate Student Who Military Service Served Marine
I would have to say Kelly Clarkson's 'Because of You' would be the song I would associate with coming out. It's really emotive, and personally, it reminds me of my father. Tan France
Me You Song Father Say Out Would Would-Be Emotive Reminds Because Coming Personally Really Kelly Associate
I had been raised in the mountains of Idaho by a father who distrusted many of the institutions that people take for granted - public education, doctors and hospitals, and the government. Tara Westover
Education Government People Take For Granted Public Education Father Doctors Mountains Hospitals Take Had Idaho Institutions Been Public Granted Who Many Raised
I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead. Tariq Ali
War Army Father College Broke Out About Joined Take Never Had He Instead Know Because Been Up Oxford Place Thing Suggested Britain
I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan. Ted Cruz
Life Father Heroes My Life Had Reagan Ronald Reagan Really Two
When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.' Ted Cruz
God Me You Thank God Care Father Liberal Say Some Take Take Care Put Arm Over Come Him Around Well-Meaning Came Underwear His Thank Here
I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it. Ted Cruz
Family Fight Liberty Word Father Will Lose Like Knows Cuba Because Keep Defend
My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example. Ted Danson
Good Father Example Knee Come Like Learned Were Lessons
I was three. My father in jest said that he'd tell the doctor to give me a shot if I didn't behave. Good heavens, I have a mental picture of the living room and the doctor approaching the door. I was terrified. Ted Danson
Good Me Doctor Father Approaching Three Picture Living Tell Mental Give Give Me He Terrified Said Behave Heavens Door Room Shot Jest Living Room
Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely. Ted Nugent
Me Respect Father Before Tools Out Wisely Like Safely American Hang Children Them Average Average American Use Raised
There was a point where I was leaving for California when I was 22. It was a tough decision to make because, at that time, my mother and father both ran a successful chain of women's lingerie stores in metro Detroit. Two were called Bra World, and two were called Lulu's Lingerie. They were great. They did well. Ted Raimi
Time Great Women World Mother Decision Father Tough Mother And Father Ran Both Tough Decision Point Detroit California Well Make Because Bra Leaving Were Metro Lingerie Did Where Stores Successful Chain Two
I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement. Ted Turner
Environmental Father Think Environmental Movement Movement Might Captain
I just read 'The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.' To be married 25 years, you have to put as much energy as I put into being an actor or being a great football player into being a better husband and a better father. Terry Crews
Work Great You Marriage Better Father Husband Energy Seven Marriage Work Married Football Put Football Player Read Principles Making Years Just Being Much Actor Player
I've read and traveled a lot in the Middle East, and I built on eyewitness accounts of horrific executions that would shape a boy's character and beliefs if he watched his father die that way. These are the stuff of which nightmares are made. Terry Hayes
Character Father Made Way East Would Horrific Shape He Stuff Read Boy Built His Lot Accounts Die Middle Middle East Which Traveled Beliefs Watched Nightmares
When I was 10, my father had to go to the local library to sign a release form stating that I was allowed to borrow books from the adult section. Terry Hayes
Library Father Local Books Release Section Stating Sign Borrow Adult Had Allowed Go Form
My father worked two jobs. He assembled speakers during the day, and then he sold real estate at night and on weekends. And then he eventually, when he was in his mid-50s, became a full-time real estate salesman. Terry J. Lundgren
Day Real Estate Father Sold Jobs Weekends He Became Real His Salesman Estate Then Worked Speakers Full-Time Eventually Night Two
My father was clearly a mentor. He told me if you work 10 years and you worked 40 hours a week, then you had 10 years experience. But if you worked 10 years and you worked 60 hours a week, then you had 15 years' experience. Terry J. Lundgren
Work Me You Experience Father Mentor Week Had He Clearly Hours Years Then Worked
When I was a sophomore in college, my father called me at the fraternity. He told me he no longer had the funds to pay for college. If I wanted to continue, I would have to do it on my own. Terry J. Lundgren
Me Father College Own Pay Fraternity Would My Own Had He Longer Sophomore Continue Wanted Funds
My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intelligence, he always thought that I was a little bit lazy. Terry Wogan
Success Intelligence Father Thought Bit Slightly Lazy Had He Knew Although Always Little Little Bit Reasonable
I think my father kept struggling to get us into better neighborhoods, better schools. One of the worst jobs he had was folding shirts under these fluorescent lights all day at the equivalent of a Kmart. I remember visiting him at work, thinking, 'When I grow up, I've got to do anything else.' Terry Zwigoff
Work Day Better Remember Father Think Thinking Else Worst All Day Neighborhoods Visiting Jobs Folding Struggling Had He Lights Schools Him Got Equivalent Up Shirts Get Anything Anything Else Us Grow Grow Up Kept
My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors. Tess Gerritsen
Me Writing Father Doctors Become Nice Brother Strongly He Said Encouraged Hobby
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