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“My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.”

Ifs Knows Want Looks Art Said Used Artist Father Talking Matthew Stanley Bradman

Author:David Peace

“My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'”

Should Used Father Dignity Suits

Author:Cary Grant

“My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.”

Life Giving Used Father Money Tough Charity Making Money Philanthropy Tough Times Philanthropic Philanthropy Giving Philanthropy Inspiration

Author:Lee Iacocca

“My father used to say: "Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common."”

People Humans Used Father Common Mistake Trust Ethics Suspects Mistaken Deceived Suspicious

Author:Stark Young

Source: Feliciana

“My father used to say: Every bird is one bird, and every book is one book, and every bird and every book is one thing too, under the words and the feathers." He finished with a flourish, as though the meaning of this was self-evident.”

Book Self Used Father One Thing Bird Finished Evident Feathers

Author:Clive Barker

Source: Everville

“My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.”

Thinking I Can Two Used Mother Father Names Beats Tunes Womb Hypocrite

Author:Yancy Butler

“My father used to take off his belt and give me a crack. And I'm all right.”

Giving Used Father Give Me Cracks Belts

Author:Sean Hannity

“My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.”

People Used Father Musician My Future

Author:Youssou N'Dour

“My father used to tell me about the ancient heroes who protected China against demons. How the gods gave them magical stones or lanterns or swords to help them on their quests. But even then, the heroes weren't invincible. They knew fear and loss, yet they fought anyway, because they knew it was the right thing to do. Because in their hearts, they were brave and true." She bit her lip, reflecting on her father's stories. The heroes had always inspired her, even if none of them had been girls.”

Inspirational Heroes Mulan

Author:Elizabeth Lim

Source: Reflection

“My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.”

Children Stories Used Certain Father My Own Heard Tendencies Variation

Author:Wole Soyinka

“My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought. Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking mind.”

People Ifs Men World Mind Said Stories Use Dream Eye Used Father Imagination Chance Offers Ordinary Ears Ancient Connected Heritage Waking Capability Listeners Constraints Dream World

Author:Tahir Shah

“My father used to tell us, 'You will have to work twice as hard to get what you want.”

Want Hard Used Father What You Want

Author:Wyomia Tyus

“My father used to think the word 'legend' was tossed around far too often. I want to say today that in the opinion of his family, my father was a legend.”

Thinking Want Today Used Father Opinion Legends Revealing

Author:James Packer

“My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.”

Used Father Week Pants

Author:Adam Sandler

“My father usually agreed with her requests, because stamped in his two-footed stance and jaw was the word Provider, and he loved her the way a bird-watcher’s heart leaps when he hears the call of the roseate spoonbill, a fluffy pink wader, calling its lilting coo-coo from the mangroves.”

Men

Author:Aimee Bender

Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.”

Father Social Particular Function Obligation Interpretation True Patriotism Social Obligation

Author:Thomas Steinbeck

“My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.”

Persons Said Real Jobs Mother Values Father Company Talent Color Periods Skills Female Paid Blind Males Gender Executives Best Person Real Knowledge

Author:Ivanka Trump

“My father walked to school 4 o'clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful.”

Way Humor School Funny Father Morning Feet Shoes Snow Clock Every Morning

Author:Bill Cosby

“My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.”

Wanted Father Doctors Medicine Pharmacist

Author:Claude Chabrol

“My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had... so he sent me to a girls school.”

Wanted School Girl Father Opportunity Education Educational

Author:Daniel Tosh

“My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.”

Self Wanted Father Defense Academy Self Defense

Author:Paige VanZant

“My father wanted me to play pro football, and he didn't like the fact that I'd left school. And he said, "It takes a man to play football. And any fool can go up on the stage and make an ass of himself.”

Men Said Play Facts Wanted School Father Left Stage Football Fool Ass Pro Football

Author:Bill Cosby

“My father wanted to be an actor, dreamed about being an actor, but he gave it up because my mom and his family told him, "You're never going to make it; it's too tough out there."”

Wanted Actors Father Mom Tough My Mom

Author:David Copperfield

“My father wanted to instill the work ethic. And, because he knew if you don't learn to work to be more productive to improve your efficiency, to cooperate with other people at an early age, you may never learn those habits.”

People Ifs May Age Wanted Father Habit Ethics Productive Efficiency Work Ethic Instill

Author:Charles Koch

“My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.”

Want I Can Father Brother Dad My Brother Want Me

Author:Robert Mapplethorpe

“My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.”

Men Said Father Alcohol Cocaine Booze

Author:Tallulah Bankhead

“My father warned me that you’re an interloper. He told me I should make you leave, since we’re no longer married and you’re not my concern,” he says. The thought gives me a chill. Yes, I’m sure Vaughn would love for his son to abandon me, so that Vaughn can swoop in and reclaim me the second I’m alone. But Linden adds, “I told him that wouldn’t be a good idea either.”

Love Choices Good Bad Lauren Lauren Destefano Destefano

Author:Lauren DeStefano

Source: Sever

“My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.”

Mother Father Baby Late

Author:John Major

“My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.”

Together Father Born Time Together

Author:Joe Wright

“My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.”

Spirit Father Independent Very Good Bankers Pianist

Author:Yoko Ono

“My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.”

World Doe States Play Father Sports Born United Poverty United States Player Basketball Direct Function Soccer Basketball Player Transference

Author:Sherman Alexie

“My father was a beautiful man.”

Men Beautiful Father Dad

Author:Shania Twain

“My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I have done in theology is of any use, it is because of what I learned on the job, that is, you can lay only one brick at a time.”

Ifs Stills Done Use Jobs Father Too Much Lays Theology Theologian Bricks Bricklayers

Author:Stanley Hauerwas

Source: Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

“My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them. And Bruce Lee was amazing.”

Art Bigs Film Used Mother Father Fans Chinese Martial Arts Hawaiians

Author:Jason Scott

“My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.”

Thinking Father Interest Particular Rays Boxers

Author:Warren Zevon

“My father was a brew master. He was the one who I was very close to, he influenced me in many many ways including my pursuing a career as a brew master.”

Way Father Careers Masters Including

Author:Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

“My father was a bullfighter.”

Father

Author:Paz Vega

“My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.”

Father Honesty Discussion Businessman Dishonesty

Author:John Cullum

“My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.”

Children Mother Father Deals Our Children Catholic Your Children Sanctions

Author:Jared Harris

“My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.”

Men Kind Film Mother Certain Father Names Saws Stranger Treated

Author:Sidney Poitier

“My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.”

Children Father Born Boys Poverty Saws Effects India Luck Servant Separating Illiteracy Civil Servants

Author:Naveen Jain

“My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues”

Father Issues Middle Lows Employment Servant Labour Unemployment Administrative Ranking Civil Servants

Author:John Hume

“My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.”

Mother Father Musician Classical Music Classical Musicians

Author:John Sebastian

“My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.”

Mother Father Singers Pianist

Author:Carly Simon

“My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.”

Father Acting Musical Theatre Singers Realised Baroque Older Sister Musical Theatre Baroque Music

Author:Antonia Thomas

“My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'”

Said Hate Father Sin Sinner Clergymen

Author:George McGovern

“My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives.”

Men Form Father Team Unions South Saved Opening Gas Village Heroic Coal Mining Bowlers Yorkshire Coal Mining

Author:Brian Blessed

“My father was a constable and died while performing his duty. My brother-in-law and partner died while performing his duty. I saw the effects those deaths had on my mother and sister, and I cannot, in good conscience, do that to a woman I . . .” Her spirits sank as he trailed off. “What a shame, Detective. I suppose that such a woman would then marry a factory worker, or other laborer, or a man in any one of a number of dangerous professions. Or perhaps a banker, who is accidently trampled in the street by a runaway carriage. Or a farmer who contracts consumption at the village autumn fete and succumbs to it weeks later.” She shook her head and pulled back. He released her, remaining silent, watching her. She shrugged, stuffing the pen and notebook into her reticule. “We are all going to die someday, and what a pity it would be to lose the possibility for happy opportunities because of fear.”

Love Marriage

Author:Nancy Campbell Allen

Source: The Matchmaker's Lonely Heart

“My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.”

Mother Father Productions Construction Engineers

Author:Mikhail Khodorkovsky

“My father was a cotton farmer first and - but he didn't have any land or what land he had, he lost it in the Depression. So he worked as a woodman and cut pulpwood for the paper mills, rode the rails in boxcars going from one harvest to another to try to make a little money picking fruit or vegetables.”

Trying Firsts Littles Father Lost Cutting Land Paper Fruit Farmers Vegetables Harvest Cotton Mills Rail Little Money

Author:Johnny Cash

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