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My Father Quotes by Natasha Trethewey
- Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a…
- My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
- My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
More My Father Quotes
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to… — Jensen Ackles
- My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by… — Joan Baez
- There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was… — Christian Bale
- I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just make it… — Roseanne Barr
- The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins. — Clara Barton
- My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or… — Glenn Beck
- The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me… — Ezra Taft Benson