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“My father would conclude his dissertations by saying, "Of course, [Albert] Einstein never believed in gravity. It was a distortion of space." And so my father couldn't believe that an attraction at a distance was a reality.”

Believe Reality Courses Father Space Distance Attraction Gravity Distortion Dissertation

Author:Paul Laffoley

“My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.”

Has Beens Made Father Bishops

Author:Grace Jones

“My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.”

Father Laughing Feet Kicks Seats Invites Stools

Author:Lincoln Steffens

Source: The World of Lincoln Steffens

“My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.”

Mother Father Lifts Stairs Fathers Day

Author:Luther Vandross

“My father would never have come to visit, he detested Eva's [Braun] choice in a man and the fact [Adolf] Hitler had set her up in an apartment. To him it was deeply humiliating that she was living with a man at his own whim at an apartment he was paying for.”

Men Facts Choices Father Apartment Whim Humiliating

Author:Gretl Braun

“My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.”

Might Night Father Sleep Dinner Breakfast All Night Beef Pancakes

Author:Ahmet Zappa

“My father would pass gas and then blame it on imaginary animals.”

Humor Funny Father Animal Blame Gas Imaginary

Author:Bill Cosby

“My father would say, 'Play a scale,' and I'd play one and he'd say, 'What about the rest? There must be one above,' so we'd figure them out. I'd start the scale on the root of the chord and I'd go as far as my hand would reach without going out of position, say, five frets, and then I'd go all the way back. So when ! practised I'd start right away on scales. As well as the usual ones, I'd play whole tone scales, diminished, dominant sevenths, and chromatic scales. Every chord form, all the way up, and this took an hour.”

Way Wells Play Whole Hands Form Father Hours Five Figures Position Roots Guitar Scales Tone Usual Going Out Dominant Chords

Author:Joe Pass

“My father would say, 'Ronnie, you're going to be someone special. Whatever it is that you want to do, you're going to be the best in the world at it.'”

World Want Father Special Being The Best Special Someone

Author:Ronda Rousey

“My father would sit and design furniture and cabinets - he was a carpenter and cabinet maker - and I would ask for my own piece of paper and pencil. And when I would say, 'What should I draw?' he would push a cartoon under my nose and say, 'Here, draw this.' So the cartoon became a kind of focus of attention.”

Should Kind Asks Father My Own Attention Focus Pieces Design Paper Draws Drawing Noses Makers Should I Cartoon Pencils Furniture Cabinets Carpenter Paper And Pencil

Author:Burne Hogarth

“My father would take me into the voting booth with him when I was little. He also took me house to house raising Dollars for Democrats. He was gone by the time I turned 30, but I feel him with me every time I vote, even if there's no booth anymore and no lever to pull to ensure privacy. I took my mother to vote every single election after she stopped driving, even when she was in an assisted living residence. Never would we pass up the opportunity to vote.”

America Mother Democracy Constitution Voting Republic Posterity Fathers Lineage Get Out The Vote

Author:Shellen Lubin

“My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings”

Life Funny Father Humorous Witty Mood Take Me Swings Playgrounds Mood Swing

Author:Jay London

“My father would take you wherever you wanted to go," he told her softly. "I was pretty sure I could talk you into staying, but I underestimated how badly hurt I was." "Stupid," she said tartly. He looked up at her, and whatever he saw in her face made him smile, though his voice was serious when he answered her charge. "Yes. You throw my judgement off." -Charles and Anna when he thought she was leaving him and Changed when he was injured”

Made Said Wanted Faces Father Voice Hurt Saws Stupid Changed Serious Leaving Judgement Staying Injured Anna Underestimated I Was Stupid Leaving Him

Author:Patricia Briggs

Source: Cry Wolf

“My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.”

Passion Father Dentist Cinematography

Author:Lasse Hallstrom

“My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.”

Father House Tears Tvs Dad Boyfriend

Author:Janis Joplin

“My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.”

Father Childhood Let Me Typing

Author:Pat Conroy

“My father writings stuff was always his personal stuff, like about the day we had to put our dog down, or finding old photographs of his father, or passing a guy he went to boarding school with on a street in New York. Very specific, detailed, descriptive columns that he wrote. I think in a way, it could be argued that my best songs are that way too. They're almost journalistic in that they're very clear, and very specific, and they describe things.”

Thinking Writing School Guy Song Father Dog Photograph

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“My father wrote: "Always question where your loyalties lie. The people you trust will expect it, your greatest enemies will desire it, and those you treasure the most, will, without fail, abuse it.”

Enemy Trust Abuse Revenge Loyalty Revenge Tv Series

Author:Emily Thorne

“My father, you must know, who was originally a Turkey merchant, but had left off business for some years, in order to retire to, and die upon, his paternal estate in the county of ——, was, I believe, one of the most regular men in every thing he did, whether 'twas matter of business, or matter of amusement, that ever lived. As a small specimen of this extreme exactness of his, to which he was in truth a slave, he had made it a rule for many years of his life,—on the first Sunday-night of every month throughout the whole year,—as certain as ever the Sunday-night came,—to wind up a large house-clock, which we had standing on the back-stairs head, with his own hands:—And being somewhere between fifty and sixty years of age at the time I have been speaking of,—he had likewise gradually brought some other little family concernments to the same period, in order, as he would often say to my uncle Toby, to get them all out of the way at one time, and be no more plagued and pestered with them the rest of the month. It was attended but with one misfortune, which, in a great measure, fell upon myself, and the effects of which I fear I shall carry with me to my grave; namely, that from an unhappy association of ideas, which have no connection in nature, it so fell out at length, that my poor mother could never hear the said clock wound up,—but the thoughts of some other things unavoidably popped into her head.”

Husband And Wife Relationship Clocks Association Of Ideas Uxoriousness

Author:Laurence Sterne

“My father – who I know is up there right now, with a big pot of gumbo, he’s got a lemon meringue pie, he’s probably in his underwear, and he’s got a cold can of Miller Lite – and he’s dancing.”

Knows Bigs Father Cold Right Now Dancing Pot Pie Underwear Lemons Gumbo Miller Lite

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.”

Earth Mother Father Sun Bosoms

Author:Tecumseh

“My father's a character.”

Character Father

Author:Bryan Adams

“My father's a keen sportsman, and so is my mother. My mother's brothers all played international rugby for Samoa. That's where I got my dreams from.”

Dream Mother Father Brother International Rugby Sportsman Samoa

Author:Filo Tiatia

“My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that.”

Littles Shows Used Mother Song Father House Stuff Rocks Dad Musician Instruments My Dad Singers Latin Rock And Roll Brooklyn

Author:Bruno Mars

“My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.”

Mother Father Teacher Preacher Rhyme

Author:Saul Williams

“My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.”

School Father Cowboy Old School Protector

Author:Paul Walker

“My father's ashes are not yet interred.strangely, I find the fact that he isn't properly laid to rest helps me when I'm doingthis play.”

Play Facts Helping Actors Father Acting Help Me Ashes

Author:Lynn Redgrave

“My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is.”

Ifs Want Children Guy Father Grew Safe Grew Up Neighborhood Italian Cousin Mafia Nephew Niece My Niece Niece And Nephew Russian Mafia

Author:Louis Gossett, Jr.

“My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country.”

People Ifs Country Hard Shows Father Taught Achievement South Prosperous Korean

Author:Park Geun-hye

“My father's biggest achievement with us as children was that he taught us that everyone is human and equal, even your enemy has the same needs and wants that you do: understanding, love, inclusion.”

Want Needs Humans Children Father Understanding Enemy Taught Equal Achievement Inclusion Taught Us Needs And Wants Understanding Love

Author:Rula Jebreal

“My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.”

People Thinking I Can Body Moving Lying Father Walks Stones Hills Pauses Tombs

Author:Patti Davis

“My father's book is about is about a number of things, but about Houdini's rage to not be a failure like his father, and it's also about converting X-rated material, namely bondage, into family friendly safe fare, which is what he did. It's also about death and resurrection, and rising to live again another day when everyone thinks you're dead.”

Thinking Book Father Numbers Materials Safe Rage Rising Friendly Resurrection Bondage Another Day Family Friends Converting Houdini X Rated

Author:Nicholas Meyer

“My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.”

Way Able Wanted Pain Dies Father Ready Cancer Fighter Tragic Outrage Ready To Die Prostate Prostate Cancer

Author:Zoe Wanamaker

“My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.”

Father Left Absence Rely

Author:Gustavo Perez Firmat

“My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for a long time I went from painting to fiction and then finally to poetry before I could find the right way of telling this story.”

Way Long Stories Father Fiction Struggle Painting Materials Long Time Immigrants Poetry Is Right Way Eighteen Raw Materials

Author:Philip Schultz

“My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.”

Pain Moving Father Difficult Sadness Amount Stress Recovery Frightening Stressed Delivery Devastated

Author:Brooke Shields

“My father's definitely old-school. And he raised me with integrity - to be places on time, show up, and work hard.”

Hard Work Integrity

Author:Scott Eastwood

“My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.”

World Wanted Father Ability Grew Grew Up Gold Encouragement Athlete Titles Olympian Prestigious

Author:David Rudisha

“My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.”

Self Happens Father My Own Example Taught Luck Things Happen Self Reliance Reliance Make Things Happen

Author:Neil Oliver

“My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude.”

Father Brother Quiet Blue Virginia Philadelphia Collars Blue Collar

Author:Ice T

“My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.”

Father Parent Born Security Revolution China Trauma Taiwan

Author:Ang Lee

“My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.”

Mother Father Russia Romania

Author:Herbie Mann

“My father's from Pakistan and he has been a secularist all his life. In the Pakistani context, there's no messing with religion. There's been a battle for the soul of Pakistan since 1947 and I have grown up without any illusions about the dangers of religious power in the context of a country like Pakistan.”

Soul Country Religious Danger Battle Illusion

Author:Sadakat Kadri

“My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.”

World Purpose Father Wealth Generations Economic Land My Generation Dominance

Author:Paul Tsongas

“My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.”

Hands Fighting Father Generations Solutions Harder Crisis Threat Climate Climate Change Obvious Fascism

Author:Nicholas Stern

“My father's life was changed right before my eyes [when he trusted Christ]. It was like someone reached down and switched on a light inside him. He touched alcohol only once after that. He got the drink only as far as his lips and that was it-after forty years of drinking! He didn't need it any more. Fourteen months later, he died form complications of his alcoholism. But in that fourteen-month period over a hundred people in the area around my tiny hometown committed their lives to Jesus Christ because of the change they saw in the town drunk, my dad.”

“My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.”

Way Should Littles Book Father Library My Way Fallen Divinity Thirst Clergymen Polemics Thirst For Knowledge

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.”

Wanted Beautiful Mother Father Drink China Cups Grandmother My Grandmother Liverpool Very Beautiful Cocoa

Author:Patti Smith

“My father's mother, my Grandmother Young, was said by the family to have talked herself to death. Convalescing from a fever, she had defied the doctors and gone right on talking.”

Said Young Mother Father Talking Gone Doctors Grandmother My Grandmother Fever

Author:Stark Young

“My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.”

Heart Long Mother Father House Sound Lines Rooms Extras Load Translate Charming Motto Bathroom Hospitality Laundry Long Lines

Author:Firoozeh Dumas

Source: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

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