M Quotes
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“My father told me by the time you die you'll be lucky if you have six people you called your friends to carry your coffin.I now realize and believe the truth is I thought if I had a dollar for every friend I in my life I'd be rich. The sad truth is if I had a penny for every true friend I have I wouldn't have a nickel.”
“My father told me I should marry the woman that loves me, not the woman I loved.”
“My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.”
“My father told me, ‘my son, don’t ever undermine the power of patience; it brings a lot of hidden things to realities and it enhances understanding; it can uplift you and it can also break you down! After certain steps in life, you shall know patience well! Handle patience well with patience; it is such an awesome weapon in the battle of life! When you have to move with patience, get the heart of patience to do that or else you shall understand patience well because of impatience! When you have to go with impatience, be swift, but remember patience in the action! In the end, one thing that will give you a very good picture of the journey of your life is the mirror of patience’. After he had spoken, I sat quietly and pondered over patience!”
“My father told me never to take my foot off a ladder to kick at someone who was kicking at me. When I did that, I would no longer be climbing. While they are kicking, my father told me, I should keep stepping. They can kick only one time. If I continued to climb, they would be left behind. In trying to hurt me, to impede my progress, they would get left behind because they allowed themselves to get sidetracked from their agenda.”
“My father told me once that love is something you plant,” he finally said. “Like a… tree, or something, I guess.”
“Sounds kinda… perverse,” Darla said, taking some popcorn.
“Not really,” Martin went on. He tried to channel his father’s exact words. “He said… he said that someone can give you something that seems so insignificant at first. Then you plant it, and it takes in the water, and it takes in the light, and soon it’s so big and so important that you can’t imagine life without it. And it doesn’t go anywhere. It stays there for you.”
Source: The Only Ones
“My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.”
“My father told me once that we are on earth to learn. God wants us to receive everything that life was meant to teach. Then we take what we've learned, and it becomes our offering to God and to mankind. But we have to live in order to learn. And sometimes we have to fight in order to live.”
Source: From Sand and Ash
“My father told me that if I ever did anything artistic, I was going to look like a hooker. I told him, 'With these huge boobs that I inherited from your mother, I already look like a hooker!'”
“My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, "what about the great men with bushy hairs?". He replied, "education had made them mad, so study to be wise and sane.”
“My father told me that some voices are so true they can be used as weapons, can maneuver the weather, change time. He said that a voice that powerful can walk away from the singer if it is shamed. After my father left us, I learned that some voices can deceive you. There is a top layer and there is a bottom, and they don't match.”
“My father told me the story of my grandfather. I started to write from then. I roam here and there to find characters - Timespan.”
Source: Finding and other stories
“My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.”
“My father told me very early on that it was a sin to worry too much.”
“My father told me when I first started that standup is exciting and I should pursue it, but that writing would be the thing that would give me power over my career. I never have to take a road gig or a writing gig I don't want because I always have the ability to play one against the other.”
“My father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people youre with.”
“My father told me, "Don't do anything that would bring shame to the family." I was always mindful of that. When I told him I wanted to pursue a career as an actor, my father said, "Look at what you see on television at the movies, is that what you want to be doing? Do you want to make a life out of that?" And I said, "Daddy, I'm going to change it".”
“My father told me, never have partners.”
“My father told us:
The worst sin is Feeling Sorry for Yourself.”
“My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.”
“My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.”
Source: Jellicoe Road
“My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, 'What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?' and my father said, 'Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,' and that was the last thing he ever said.”
Source: Jellicoe Road
“My father tried to get me to be around gay people a lot when I was young. He owned a gay bookstore and it had a lot of gay literature and art books and he wanted me to be taken care of by the young gays and lesbians who worked for him.”
“My father tried to give me the sex talk once, and he chickened out. He walked into my room and went, 'Adam - uh, don't kiss guys.'”
“My father turned my life around insisting I be more than I was and by believing I could be more.”
“My father tutored me well on amnesia. He always said it was a necessary ingredient for any friendship. (Kiara)”
Source: The League: Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3: Born of Night, Born of Fire, Born of Ice
“My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd.
"This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out,
"Of plaster Saints;" his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred heritage." Father said, whether it's a fiddle tune or a gospel song, learn it right off the record from the people who grew up with it. Don't just learn it from a piece of paper.”
“My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they'll give him 10 years, but a guy can do white-collar crime and steal the money of thousands and he'll get probation and a slap on the wrist.”
“My father used to beat me with his belt...while it was still on him.”
“My father used to brag that I wasn't a ham, I was the whole pig.”
“My father used to call me the laughing hyena.”
Source: Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy
“My father used to describe how he'd love going, early in the morning, out on a location and waiting for the trucks to arrive and the circus to come to town. That's what it's like, every day, when you're making a film. It's the magic.”
“My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.”
“My father used to look at people and he treated everyone with such respect, and he always believed that he would rather trust you face on and be disappointed perhaps down the road, be disappointed some of the time rather than never to trust someone, never to believe in someone, and alas, be disappointed all the time. There's a big difference there.”
“My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.”
“My father used to say courage isn't the absence of fear, but rather going forward in the face of it.”
Source: The Last Train to London
“My father used to say it was cyclical, that prosperity would breed corruption, which would in turn breed calamity.”
Source: The Legendary Inge
“My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he didn't use the word "jerk."”
“My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'”
“My father used to say that it’s not enough to just beat an attacker off. You have to hurt them enough that they’ll know not to tangle with you anymore. Or preferably kill them. (Wren)”
Source: Unleash The Night
“My father used to say that life is what you make it. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You can’t change the past, but the future isn’t set in stone. You can effect a change there. Move forward not with hatred or love. Move forward with purpose. (Simone)”
Source: Dream Chaser
“My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.”
Source: In Arabian Nights
“My father used to say that when he was growing up the water was clear and there were tons of fireflies everywhere... He felt sorry for the kids growing up today... But it is really beautiful... Time will just keep on passing... we'll get old... and look back on the past. I hope we can always say... how great things were.”
Source: Mars, Vol. 10
“My father used to say that when hunting a shark, we should either kill it or let it go. To cage a shark is sheer cruelty, and I cannot live like a shark in a cage any longer.”
“My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody.”
“My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.”
“My father used to say the people of Swat and the teachers would continue to educate our children until the last room, the last teacher and the last student was alive. My parents never once suggested I should withdraw from school, ever. Though we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us.”
“My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'”
“My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."”