Best father & my-own Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.”

Humans Culture Father My Own Human Beings Son Husband Degrees Males Notion Subversive Father Husband

Author:Mark Leyner

“I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.”

Mother Father My Own Progress Hospitals Journal Family And Friends Newsletters

Author:Brent Runyon

“I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read my book. And I remember myself, we'd gone through a world war. My father was an army officer so I was aware of what was going on. But I wasn't bombarded with images of catastrophe like many kids are today.”

World Book War Kids Age Today Remember Father My Own Gone Army Compare War Of The Worlds Officers Catastrophe Grandchildren Bombarded Bombarded By Army Officers

Author:Lois Lowry

“I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.”

Way Wanted Father My Own Dependent

Author:Tamara Mellon

“I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.”

Feels Found Father Voice My Own

Author:Dweezil Zappa

“I have become my own father.”

Father My Own

Book:Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond

Source: Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond

“I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared to what followed.”

Way Sometimes Facts Father Felt Growth My Own Garden Insignificant Landmarks

Author:Ian Mcewan

“My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.”

Thinking Father My Own Path Raised

Author:Antony Garrett Lisi

“As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies”

Has Beens Mother Suffering Father My Own Party Solitude Sick Bitter Servant Chairs Abandoned Tied Agony Amused Perishing

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“My upbringing was very un-Hollywood. I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch. I was never really smitten by the business in those days, never a fan type - just a basic kid watching TV. It wasn't like I was an insider. I was never really brought into the show business side of my father's life. I guess that's been a blessing and a downfall. But it's made my own work the initiation.”

Made Shows Kids Father Sides Born My Own Fans New York Tvs Grew Type Blessing Grew Up Hollywood Show Business Upbringing Downfall Initiation Insiders Watching Tv Smitten

Author:Stephanie Zimbalist

“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

“I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. Too many have died since I went to prison. Too many have suffered for the love of freedom. I owe it to their widows, to their orphans, to their mothers and their fathers, who have grieved and wept for them ..... Not only have I suffered during these long lonely wasted years. I am no less life-loving than you are. But I cannot sell the birthright of the people to be free ....... Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.”

Source: Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches

“But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of Outer Mongolia, I knew my name was written there too. Fly fishing was going to be my version of my father's sport, my nod to my Scottish ancestors and to my self, and to the fish crazed part of America I had claimed as my own.”

Writing Self America Father Names Sports Lines My Own Prayer Saws Grace Written Sea Rivers Fishes Versions Boat Lakes Fishing Ancestor Scottish Fly Fishing Mongolia Cursive Guidos

Author:Jessica Maxwell

“When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.”

“For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self.”

Years Humans Self Spiritual Father Left My Own Twenties Seven Russia Witness Seven Years Monument Grim Deterioration

Book:Only One Year

Source: Only One Year

“Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.”

Giving Children Earth Father Parent My Own Grief Generations Revenge Punishment Children And Parents

Book:The Wild Child

Source: The Wild Child

“I know how lucky I am. I never take it for granted. In this country [USA], anything can happen - anybody can be what they want to be. All I ever wanted was to be a good husband and father, a good chef, and to have my own restaurant. And the celebrity was never expected. Wouldn't have even dared dream of it. And here I am. So anyone's dreams can come true. And I'm very, very grateful for everything that's come my way. I thank everyone who enjoys what I do.”

“I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.”

Thinking Wells Character Mother Father Names My Own Changed Meetings Main Characters Maggie

Author:Matt Groening

“When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.”

Moments Faces Father My Own Arms Needed Dad Died Profound My Dad I Realized Father Died My Father Died

Author:Criss Angel

“As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked my father, up my ass.”

Ifs Father My Own Mom Clouds My Mom Ass Secondary Education

Author:Michael J. Fox

“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 own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.”

Age America Father My Own Special Fellows Journalist Franklin Special Relationship Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Author:Lionel Barber

“Religion and anger has gone together a lot, historically. My father, being very religious and angry, was trying to reconcile the ideas of love and forgiveness with damage in his own heart. We historically create God in the image of someone who will redeem us, or someone who has damaged us. A lot of my imaginations of God was a projection of my own damage because of my father. God is good but he has a lot of expectations, of which I have failed -- just like my dad. But I don't think it's truthful to create God as a projection of either our damage or our altruism.”

“When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth?”

Believe Wanted Father My Own Failing Willing Birth Merit Jockeys

Author:Mavis Leno

“Imagine if you would, what would happen to your sorrows and fears if God Himself, the maker of heaven and earth, the Father of our Lord, the sovereign One, were to come to you, wrap you in His almighty arms and say to you, 'I love you with a perfect love, exactly as I love My Son. I will never stop loving you, no matter what. I am completely, utterly for you. I promise, on My own life, that I will do you good every day of your life. And because I control all things, that means My good is all you will ever experience from this time forward.'”

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