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I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a voi...

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He died at the wrong time, when there was much to be clarified and established. They hadn’t even sta...

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A boy trudged down the sidewalk dragging a fishing pole behind him. A man stood waiting with his han...

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was s...

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My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his ...

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My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I...

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My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father tol...

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I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other ma...

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While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per t...

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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

I think my father gave me a great reverence for medical science. He was about as opposite to the per...

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We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a ...

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Not everyone knows what it is to have your father’s rival’s penis inches from your nose.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love ...

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We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from se...

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Can you think what the Mirror of Erised shows us all?" Harry shook his head."Let me explain. The hap...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a ba...

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I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Pa...

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We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class ...

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I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was...

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My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

Rationalizing him and the glass pipe, Dad smoked crack, but he was not a crackhead; it was just some...

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Janet MockRedefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood

'Yes' is the mother of all positive words, next to 'love.' Maybe 'love' is the father of all positiv...

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My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out...

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It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

I think Chris Martin is younger than I am, but when I met him, I felt like I was talking to my fathe...

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My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father ca...

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Will you remember this day, Gogol?" his father had asked, turning back to look at him, his hands pre...

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I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports pe...

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My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That ...

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I truly think comedy is - being funny is DNA. My dad was a doctor, a wonderful doctor, and people st...

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When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if h...

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From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c...

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Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialize...

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In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms ar...

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My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It...

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Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his ...

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Perhaps it's true that all men love their fathers, no matter how terrible the things they do to thei...

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Her father had learned only one thing in prison. Not humility, nor patience, nor understanding...Mar...

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I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. ...

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I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier...

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My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything...

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It's because I haven't courage,' said Samuel. 'I could never quite take the responsibility. When the...

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The dream thatwe are our fathers. I walked to the Brod,41without knowing why, and looked intomy refl...

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Jonathan Safran FoerEverything Is Illuminated

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Darling,You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am wri...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

He promised us that everything would be OK. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be O...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

And even as she holds on to him, like she's drowning, she can feel the familiar anger returning, lik...

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Jonathan TropperOne Last Thing Before I Go

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In ...

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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results ...

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I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reade...

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My father's values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals....

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Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with o...

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If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does no...

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My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has ...

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My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

Her eyes traced the sleek shape of the table's legs, the sinuous curves of its corners, the gleam of...

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I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of...

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My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I ...

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My father's love was always strongMy mother's glamour lives on and on.Yet still inside I felt alone,...

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Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resou...

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I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade educ...

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My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines...

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A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion ...

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My father was often angry when I was most like him.

I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-""The world does not forgive mistakes so qui...

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My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my ...

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When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build ...

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I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainly been affected ...

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When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a...

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When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a...

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When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a...

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When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a...

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It had been my father's way to remove obstructions, to repair washouts in old trails, to leave each ...

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My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there...

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Peace and not war is the father of all things.

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in...

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I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - b...

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He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotio...

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I want my father to be just my father, the way he has always been, not a separate person with an ear...

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There were a few other moves of his father's he could do without as well - the sucker punches, the r...

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Margaret AtwoodOryx and Crake

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things t...

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My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my m...

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My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured...

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My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a lo...

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If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a goo...

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When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes...

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My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat be...

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life ...

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We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

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Martin SheenAlong the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father play...

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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You ne...

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