3607 Father Quotes for You to Enjoy

My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood. Beth Ditto

Mom Me Happy Mother Father Long Too Other Though Some Guy Had He Name She Stick Around Dude His Blood Get Lent Rid Fling Who Even Dad Chose Homer

My father didn't want me to go to New York City, and I was determined to go. Learning to give myself the permission to be who I was in the world and to make my own choices was hard. Betty Buckley

I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class. Bharati Mukherjee

Home Me Class Creative Writing Father Before Back Our Spend Airport Out Carry Marry Small Caste Selected Writers Had He Written Studying Come Iowa Ready Years Commands Left Surrounded Then Flew Workshop Creative Writing Night Two

I don't feel the depression the people who are always looking back to the '50s, to 'Father Knows Best' feel. I can see the coming of another glorious era. Bharati Mukherjee

Depression Best People Father Looking Looking Back Glorious Back See Feel Knows Another Always Era Coming Who

James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle. Bill Callahan

Father He Saddle Like Being Fiction James Apparently

John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden. Bill Dedman

Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macoris, a dusty seaside town in the Dominican Republic. His father, Juan Montero, died when Sosa was 5. Bill Dedman

Father Back Hospital Town Juan Without His Up Dominican Republic Died Dusty Grew San Republic Public Converted

My father was actually a chemist. He got a degree in chemistry from Stanford. Bill Foster

Father Degree Chemistry He Got Chemist Stanford Actually

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer. Bill Griffith

Man Army Mother Father Writer Had Mixture Career

American history has always had elements of what we now think of as Trumpism - Joe McCarthy, George Wallace, Father Coughlin. It's not as if these things haven't always existed, and they were powerful. The big difference is Trump is president. Bill Kristol

President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all. Bill Maher

When my brother died in 1966, my father began a grieving process that lasted almost twenty-five years. For all that time, he suffered from chronic, debilitating headaches. I took him to some of the country's major medical facilities, but no one could cure him of his pain. Bill Moyers

Time Father Country Pain Lasted Chronic Took Brother Some Facilities Could No-One He Almost Headaches Major Him His Years Debilitating Began Cure Died Process Grieving Twenty-Five Suffered Medical

My father left school at 14 and became a fitter. He didn't want to be at school. Bill Shorten

School Father He Became Left Fitter Want

While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979. Bill de Blasio

The life of Edward Estlin Cummings began with a childhood in Cambridge, Mass., that he described as happy, but he struggled in both his artistic and romantic exploits against the piousness of his father, an esteemed Harvard professor. Billy Collins

Life Happy Father Harvard Struggled Both He Mass Cambridge His Edward Began Artistic Childhood Romantic Esteemed Against Exploits Professor

We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina. Binyavanga Wainaina

Good People Father First Too Ways Brothers Brothers And Sisters Adopted Adopting Colonial Had Name Naming Also Schools Were Mixed Western Up Sisters Grandfather Produce Show Christians

When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around. Black Elk

I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership. Blair Underwood

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