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“The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.”

Firsts Father Bits Talking Saws Stage Sweet First Time Dinner Flesh Charming

Author:Christopher Plummer

“My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.”

Men Children Father Talking Bed Terror Rage My Sister

Author:Antonio Villaraigosa

“Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about.”

Knows Culture Father Justice Talking Democracy Position Diversity Social Justice Minorities

Book:The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition

Source: The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition

“I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years. Once in awhile, a letter does fall behind a post office desk and lie there for years before it's finally discovered and delivered to the rightful address. The seemingly brain-dead sometimes wake up and start talking. I'm always on the lookout for proof that what is done can sometimes be undone.”

Source: The Age of Miracles

“Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me.”

Stories Bigs Father Talking Excited Bedtime Bedtime Stories

Author:Adam Sandler

“The father spent his time talking and thinking of religion. He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the ideas of God that had crept into the minds of his neighbors that he never saw God manifesting himself in the little child that, half forgotten, lived here and there on the bounty of her dead mother's relatives.”

Thinking Mind Children Littles Ideas Mother Father Half Talking Saws Forgotten Neighbor Manifest Destroying Agnostic Here And There Bounty Dead Mother

Book:Winesburg, Ohio

Source: Winesburg, Ohio

“My father taught me to not fear anything. Having said that, much of my addiction to alcohol and drugs was tied to fear: fear of flying, fear of talking to women, etc. I conquered those fears years ago.”

Years Said Father Talking Taught Drug Years Ago Addiction Alcohol Flying Etc Tied Fear Of Flying

Author:Derek Sanderson

“I hate pants. This is something I have inherited from my father. He despised pants, and my mother was never allowed to wear them at home. We're talking about a different time period now, when the man was much more the ruler of the house. But I still feel that way, and neither my mother nor Maria is allowed to go out with me in pants.”

Men Way Feels Stills Different Home Mother Hate Father House Talking He Man Periods I Hate Pants Rulers Despised Different Times Time Periods

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.”

“Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'”

People Thinking Writing Mean Father Hours Talking Son Citizens One Day Husband Musician Vote Playing Music Writing Music

Author:Herbie Hancock

“What we men share is the experience of having been raised by women in a culture that stopped our fathers from being close enough to teach us how to be men, in a world in which men were discouraged from talking about our masculinity and questioning its roots and its mystique, in a world that glorified masculinity and gave us impossibly unachievable myths of masculine heroics, but no domestic models to teach us how to do it.”

Men World Enough Culture Father Talking Teach Share Models Roots Raised Myth Questioning Masculinity Masculine Discouraged Be A Man Our Father Mystique

Author:Frank Pittman

“Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.”

Book Father House Talking Morning Window Sat

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“my mother hoped that i would die etcetera bravely of course my father used to become hoarse talking about how it was a privilege and if only he could”

Ifs Used Mother Dies Courses Father Talking Dying Bravery Privilege Etcetera

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems