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“I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'”

Father Fiction Week Minutes Students Office Fellows Lawyer Coffee Shops Lunch Daddy Cables Workshops Courtship Iowa Coffee Shop

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“Men. One minute they have their tongues down your throat and the next they're forbidding you from meeting your own father and criticizing your fashion choices.”

Men Choices Next Father Minutes Fashion Meetings Tongue Criticize Throat One Minute

Book:Killer in High Heels: High Heels Mysteries book #2

Source: Killer in High Heels: High Heels Mysteries book #2

“I coached against Dave the last couple of years, and I was very proud to be the first time a father ever coached against his son. He beat me for 30 minutes the first time and 59 and a half minutes the second time.”

Years Firsts Lasts Father Sports Half Minutes Son Proud Couple Beats First Time Dave

Author:Don Shula

“In their censures of luxury the fathers are extremely minute and circumstantial; and among the various articles which excite their pious indignation, we may enumerate false hair, garments of any colour except white, instruments of music, vases of gold or silver, downy pillows, white bread, foreign wines, public salutations, the use of warm baths, and the practice of shaving the beard, which, according to Tertullian, is a lie against our own faces, and am impious attempt to improve the works of the Creator.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“We're learning more about Osama bin Laden. His father was married 16 times, and he has five wives. I think we're getting to the root of his intense anger. And they say bin Laden never spends the night in the same place twice. No, wait a minute, that's Clinton.”

Thinking Night Father Waiting Five Wife Minutes Married Roots Clinton Intense Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden Learning More

Author:David Letterman

“I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each kid an average of twenty-two minutes a week, which I found almost unbelievable. Mine are in my hip pocket all the time. And I like it that way.”

Way Two Home Kids Found Father Week Minutes Mines Twenties Average Hips Pockets Unbelievable Twenty Two

Book:Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

Source: Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King