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“My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.”

Men Facts Young Father Grew Grew Up Selling Young Man Countryside Cattle

Author:Aaron Klug

“My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.”

Children Asks Father Poor Support Seven Unemployment Payment Funding Unemployed Eldest Eldest Child

Author:John Hume

“My father was usually too far in the drink to remember he had children. My mother was half mad and had fewer morals than the barn cat we brought back today. Since none of our relations wanted custody of a pair of impoverished brats, Devon and I were sent to boarding school. We stayed there most holidays. I became a bully. I hated everyone. Henry was especially irritating- skinny, odd, fussy about his food. Always reading. I stole that book from the box under his bed because it seemed to be his favorite." Pausing uncomfortably, Mr. Ravenel raked a hand through his disordered hair, and it promptly fell back into the same gleaming, untidy layers. "I didn't plan to keep it. I was going to embarrass him by reading parts of it aloud in front of him. And when I saw what you'd written on the inside cover, I could hardly wait to torture him about it. But then I read the first page." "In which Stephen Armstrong is sinking in a pit of quicksand," Phoebe said with a tremulous smile. "Exactly. I had to find out what happened next." "After escaping the quicksand, he has to save his true love, Catriona, from the crocodiles." A husky sound of amusement. "You marked x's all over those pages." "I secretly longed for a hero to rescue me from crocodiles someday." "I secretly longed to be a hero. Despite having far more in common with the crocodiles.”

Confessions Phoebe Clare West Ravenel Phoebe And West Adventure Stories Henry Clare

Author:Lisa Kleypas

Source: Devil's Daughter

“My father was very big on marriage.”

Bigs Father

Author:Sidney Poitier

“My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.”

Feels I Can Helping Father Clear College Ordinary Paid Best Things Upbringing Trainees

Author:Vijay Mallya

“My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.”

People Trying War Facts Helping Fighting Found Father Language Clear Information Brother Asking Revenge Journalist Cycles Disappointed Brothers And Sisters Animosity Exacting Revenge

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“My father was very funny, so I grew up with humor in the house. And I was always really attracted to comedies on TV. I was always really attracted to comics.”

Father House Comedy Tvs Grew Grew Up

Author:Susan Stroman

“My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.”

Father Hero Passionate Intense Tyrants My Hero Over The Top

Author:June Jordan

“My father was very much a child of the counterculture movement and was drawn to the idea of alleviating poverty in the developing world, helping farmers diversify their crops and stuff like that.”

World Children Helping Father Poverty Farmers

Author:Lydia Polgreen

“My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.”

Persons Father House Rounds Handy Carpentry

Author:John Henry Carver

“My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.”

Play Father Musical

Author:William Golding

“My father was very outwardly religious.”

Father Religious

Author:John McGahern

“My father was very political. But he told me, "Be very careful when you get into politics, because there's no black and white. There's an in-between in everything. So look at that side, don't take one point, because then you are negating half of the other people. Try to find the logic on a problem, something that you believe, and take the position that you believe, but be very careful about it." So I was very well trained in that aspect.”

People Trying Believe Wells Looks Problem Political Father Sides Black White Half Position Aspect Logic Careful Black And White

Author:Sergio Aragones

“My father was very strict with me, and I kept seeing a disparity between their freedom and my lack of it, or how I had all the responsibilities and they had none. And the Catholic Church, all of the rules, and why did I have to wear a dress when they could wear pants? I would say to my dad: 'Will Jesus love me less if I wear pants? Am I going to hell?'”

Ifs Father Jesus Church Responsibility Hell Seeing Dad Catholic Dresses My Dad Pants Strict Catholic Church Jesus Love Disparity Jesus Loves Me

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“My father was very strict, but mostly I just didn't know how to behave on a date.”

Knows Father Know How Behave Strict

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.”

Ifs Way Values Father Strong Integrity Agree Very Strong

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.”

Wells Doe Art Matter Certain Universe Father Easy Grace Eternal Salvation Good Things Fishing Trout Fly Fishing Angling Anglers Trout Fishing

Author:Norman Maclean

Source: A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

“My father was working on his Ph.D. on Danish choral music - the Danish choral music of Carl Nielsen - so over there to do research.”

Father Research Danish Choral Music

Author:Pete Docter

“My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.”

Men Hard Enough Character Father Dad Tough My Dad Iron

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.”

Way Humans Father Human Beings Rights Human Rights Racist Get Away Activist Militant

Author:Malaak Shabazz

“My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He didn't charge people like he should have... which is why I was allowed to play bars and strip joints when I was 14.”

People Should Play Helping Law Father Should Have Sacred Very Good Lawyer Bars Joints Good Lawyer

Author:Max Weinberg

“My father wasn't absolutely delighted. He wanted me to become a lawyer. I studied law, but I thought the shoe business was more exciting.”

Wanted Law Father Exciting Shoes Lawyer Delighted

Author:Diego Della Valle

“My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'”

Ifs Knows Kids Today Used Mother Father Deeper Who I Am Why Me

Author:LeBron James

“My father wasn't much for show business. He was an insurance man - very well-liked, very warm. He had a lot of friends.”

Men Wells Shows Father Warm Show Business Lots Of Friends

Author:Don Rickles

“My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.”

Ifs Needs Important Matter Whole Helping Father Perfect Taught Members No Matter What Important Things What If Temper Need You Snaps Family Members Calming Whole Family Calming Down

Author:Adam Sandler

“My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.”

Light Mother Father Mom Involved Parenting My Mom Parenthood

Author:Marion Jones

“My father wasn't the best role model to me.”

Father Roles Models Role Models

Author:Joe Torre

“My father watched football with the sound off because he lived in fear of hearing the voice of Howard Cosell.”

Father Sports Sound Voice Football Hearing

Author:Rita Rudner

Source: Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature

“My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.”

Mother Father Fit Coats Bronze

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.”

Knows Mother Father Saws Happened Armed Services

Author:Gregory Corso

“My father went to college for drama in Pittsburgh, and so did my mother, and then my mother was a steadily working New York theater actress. They kind of quit when I was born. They did that for, like, 10 years before they had kids and then I was born and they were not into that lifestyle for kids.”

Years Kind Kids Mother Father Born New York College Drama Theater Actresses Quitting Lifestyle Pittsburgh

Author:Ethan Suplee

“My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read - it was long before TV, remember!”

Way Long Remember Father Hours Half Four Journey Tvs Train Sat Supper

Author:Maeve Binchy

“My father when walked into a room, you could tell that everybody loved him. They really did. He was quite a man. My mother was more into the show biz atmosphere than he was.”

Men Shows Mother Father Rooms Atmosphere Show Biz

Author:Don Rickles

“My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.”

Long Stories Would Be Father Lines Cases Tricks Peculiar Storyteller Long Life Obsessive Yiddish Long Story

Author:Stephen Greenblatt

“My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through.”

Trying Mother Father House Roles Amount Protect Models Role Models Sensitivity

Author:Tyler Perry

“My father will find you and kill you for what you have done.” She said to him solemnly. Maligo towered over her, a leering smile twisting his dark face. “You would have to consider yourself lucky if you ever see your father again. Even if it is while he watches me take your life.” He snarled, allowing a haughty smirk creep across his face.”

Death Evil

Author:B.C. Morin

Source: Mark of the Princess

“My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.”

Years Mean Father Orchestra Trans

Author:Eddie Trunk

“My father will hear about this.”

Harry Potter Iconic Goofy Draco Malfoy

Author:J.K. Rowling

“My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.”

Courses Father Paid Property Nine Holes Quarters Labs Naval Ordnance

Author:Lewis Black

“My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.”

Children Home Father Charity Drs

Author:David Bowie

“My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.”

Government Father Directors Engineers

Author:Edward Tufte

“My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family. There was a lot of love and a lot of conflict. The conflict kicked in mostly during my adolescence.”

Father Conflict Office Adolescence

Author:Amanda Donohoe

“My father worked for the same firm for 12 years. They fired him and replaced him with a tiny gadget that does everything my father does, only much better. The depressing thing is my mother ran out and bought one”

Years Doe Mother Time Father Tiny Firm Ran Depressing Replaced Gadgets

Author:Woody Allen

“My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer, the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.”

Want Stills Hard Problem Wanted Father Poor Arguing Entertainers

Author:Diana Ross

“My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.”

People Thinking Should Years Wells Kind Made America Father Circumstances Activity Office Good Things Posts Employee Modest Post Office

Author:David Rubenstein

“My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'”

Want Life Is Father Lines Support Growing Up Growing Needed What You Want Life Is Short Assembly Detroit Assembly Line

Author:Anita Baker

“My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.”

Father Feet Machines Wide Copies Xerox

Author:Michael Cera

“My father would always say "learn everything you can and whenever you can, because you never know when it'll come in handy."”

Knows Father Handy

Author:Charles Koch

“My father would always tell me that creativity didn't matter at the diner. When I was probably 14 or 15, I would put - I mean, it was a no-nonsense place - but I would try to put a sprig of parsley or orange curl on the omelets, or something like that. He'd be like "Don't do that!"”

Trying Mean Father Creativity

Author:Grant Achatz

“My father would argue two side of a möbius strip.”

Argument Science Humor Math Humor

Author:Dan Brown

Source: Angels & Demons

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