Father Quotes by John Carter Cash

I was 33 when my father passed away.

— John Carter Cash

Nobody sounds like my dad.

— John Carter Cash

My dad was a unique person.

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My father was a patriot.

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My dad lived with pain his whole life.

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I saw my parents go through tough times between 1979 and 1983. They almost split up.

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My father, he wouldn't be belligerent or violent. It was never that way.

— John Carter Cash

He was self-sacrificing in many different ways, and my father was a man of paradoxes.

— John Carter Cash

My father was always much more willing to laugh than to go to the darkness.

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My father, he made chili; that was probably his favorite dish to make.

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My father was a unique man, but he had a shyness about him.

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To me, those are the greatest treasures - the personal letters between my parents.

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My father was a very prolific writer and he left behind a huge body of unpublished work.

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The honest thing is that my parents wanted to help people. That is part of my responsibility, to carry on that legacy.

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There are a lot of things about my father, various things, that people connect with. He was that diverse of a person,…

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My father had a great sense of humor. He wasn't only the Man in Black. He said it himself in the song…

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I think if my father was a truck driver, I would have wanted to share the beauty that was there. He just…

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My father's favorite poem was probably 'Love is patient, love is kind.' It's simply stated but pretty profound. That's how my dad…

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My father was an entertainer. This is, of course, one of the most marked and enduring manifestations.

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He gave me a picture of himself when I was 14 and it said, 'To John Carter: My Best friend, Dad.' That…

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Dad never really got over Jack's death and was deeply inspired by his brother throughout his life to delve deeper into his…

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I try to weigh out the dark and the light. They were both very real aspects of my Dad. To me, the…

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My father was a wildfire. Really. Nobody could save him from anything. His family turned away from him, and he broke up…

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My father was a great outdoorsman. From when I was about six we would spend countless hours together in the woods or…

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I don't think anyone in the world could play my father, look just like him, act just like him, and make you…

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There's an image that my mother saved my father in 1968 and everything was a bed of roses after that. And that…

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Along with the music, there is a large part of my father's legacy that has to do with what he had to…

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Within the first six years of my life, if asked what Dad was to me I would have emphatically responded: 'Dad is…

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God probably shook his head and said 'Oh, my goodness' many times in dealing with my father. But what God saw in…

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I think when a lot of people hear my father's music they are immediately drawn in.

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Dad trusted people based on their spirit and their handshake.

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My father had a way of exposing himself, of showing weakness and still retaining his dignity.

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Dad literally carried me around the world with him through the early years of my life,

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There was so much about my dad that wasn't on the surface.

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My father, to me, is an important piece in American history.

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My father and mother were together because of their faith.

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My father was a humanitarian, but he didn't side one way or another with any certain right's groups. He just believed in…

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To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera…

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My father's special gift? I think for one it was his gentleness. The way that he could offer a heart in any…

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My father was always respectful to my grandfather. I really wanted that to be known because I never saw him disrespect my…

— John Carter Cash