Father Said Quotes
58 quotes by 54 authors
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We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a…
— Hugo Chavez
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I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best all-around…
— Amy Chua
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My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?
— Dexter Scott King
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We must make democracy the popular creed...If we should fail to do this, our people are bound to suffer... That is what my father said.…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you're on you own. So I was dead broke for years. So I know…
— Jon Lovitz
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Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never…
— Elizabeth Enright
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My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.
— Steven Herrick
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Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated…
— Teresa of Avila
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My father lead by fear. I did what my father said ‘cause I was scared of getting my ass beat. His voice rang so vividly…
— Nelly
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My father said it himself in an interview many years ago: 'Husband and wife failed, but mother and father didn't.' I've got a life that…
— Jakob Dylan
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My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.
— Diane Cilento
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The keys that unlock the heart are made of funny materials: a disarming phrase that comes out of the blue, nowhere, a certain sexy walk…
— Jonathan Carroll
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The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.
— Larry Niven
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My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me…
— Norman Lamm
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My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity. But many years ago, my father said he wanted me to run the brewery and…
— Pete Coors
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My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and…
— Roger Tory Peterson
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My father said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.
— Maria Goeppert-Mayer
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When our Lord says, 'I have not spoken of Myself' (Jn. 12:49), and again, 'As the Father said to Me, so I speak' (Jn. 12:50),…
— Saint Basil
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My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the…
— Haile Gebrselassie
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