Father Quotes

I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image. Anna Deavere Smith
Life Remember Father Took Minister About Like Metaphor Prism Cherished Using Away Image Funeral Kept
My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer. Anna Lee
Prayer Father Power Minister Comforted Always Been Episcopalian Dad
The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend. Anna Letitia Barbauld
Best Family Knowledge Conversation Women Father Reading Way Recommend Easy Best Way Brother Course Friend May Intercourse Acquire
My father is an acupuncturist, and the way he practices is very free. For me, he's like an artist. He started to do acupuncture when it wasn't so accepted. His spirit and outlook inspire me. Anna Mouglalis
Me Inspire Father Free Way Spirit Outlook He Like Practices Accepted His Very Artist Acupuncture Started
I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains. Anna Neagle
Better Wait Father Job Long Difficult Brother See Trips Better Job New Always Sailor After Curtains Whether Again Sea Even Found Alan Things Chance
I've been estranged from my father since I was eight. Anna Torv
Father Since Been Eight
My father was a newspaper editor, so I was surrounded by journalists my entire life. I think the fact that he was so well known may be why I chose to go into magazines and move to the States at a young age. Anna Wintour
Life Age Father Young Think States Magazines Entire Entire Life Fact He Journalists Well Well Known Known Editor Go Surrounded May Move Young Age Newspaper Chose Why
My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.' Annalena McAfee
Me Father Would Him Read Times Get Newspaper Stand Used Radio
She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else. Anne Bronte
People Cats Father Everybody Everybody Else Else Neglected Slighted Valued She Courted Dogs Trusted Children Loved Poor Poor People Her
I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me. Anne Heche
Me Phone Mother Father Year Seventh Hung Sexually About Had Abuse She Been Up Therapy
I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember flocks of white birds that would lift from the backs of cattle, disturbed by the jackhammers and bulldozers clearing land for Walt Disney World. Anne Hull
Time World Remember Father Half Barefoot White Birds Backs Would Running Disturbed Lift Clearing Half The Time Around Cattle Up Orange Walt Walt Disney Where Grew Central Land Worked Disney Flock Florida
My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers. Anne Reid
Family Father Church Ministers Lawyers He Tales Said Were His Scotland Full
I don't ever think of myself as coming from a particular class because my father was working class but made his living as a newspaper foreign correspondent - someone of no fixed abode, as he used to say - who was as comfortable dining with the Mountbattens in India as he was having a pint with the boys. He was very gregarious. Anne Reid
Myself Class Father Made Living Think Say Dining Correspondent India Abode Someone Having He Particular Comfortable Because Boy Foreign Coming His Pint Very Fixed Gregarious Newspaper Working Used Working-Class Who Ever
My father fought in the war, and then he was posted all 'round the world with his job. So I didn't know him very well when I was young. Anne Reid
War World Father Job Young Posted He Know Well Him His Very Then Fought Round
Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone. Annie Dillard
Family Mother Father Made Our Crowd Noises Always Fringe Microphone Lunatic
I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me. Annie Ilonzeh
Family Me Mother Father White Skin See Rarely Color Never He Come Issue American African-American Skin Color Nigeria
'East of Eden' is an important story for me. It's about a kid that's misunderstood and feels like he's not loved by his father. It's a very father-son kind of story, and it's not until the end that they sort of make up. I like that because every boy has trouble with his father, so it's very relatable. Ansel Elgort
Me Father Trouble Important Every Kid East Kind About He Feels Like Until Eden Make Sort Make Up Because Boy Misunderstood His End Up Very Loved Story
One minute, you're dropping your teenage son off to a festival, and the next, you're changing a nappy, but I love the versatility and challenge of being a father. Ant Middleton
Love You Son Challenge Father Changing Teenage One Minute Minute Dropping Versatility Off Festival Being Next Your
Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive. Anthony Browne
Me Man Strong Father Strong Man Big Physically He Remind Also Very Sensitive
My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough. Anthony Hopkins
Character Man Father Tough Own Enough Those Pretty Tougher Cruel He Him His Iron Loved Hard Even Dad
My father was aloof, very strange and very distant. Anthony Horowitz
Strange Father Distant Aloof Very
I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all. Anthony Horowitz
Man Father Think Bad Bad Man
With every year that passes, I get further away from my target audience, and while I've been happy to think of myself as a father figure to these kids, I'd be a little distressed to be thought of as a grandfather figure. Anthony Horowitz
Myself Happy Father Thought Year Every Think Father Figure Further Kids Distressed Audience Passes Been Target Get While Little Grandfather Figure Away
Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator. Anthony Kiedis
Great Father Back Say Had Attentive Like Look Educator Very Upbringing Now Actually
I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world. Anthony Kiedis
Beautiful World Father Girl Meet Insatiable Beautiful Girls Inherited Desire
My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him. Anthony Kiedis
Conservative Father Physically Abuse Him His Ferociously Upbringing Where Against Rebelled
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