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I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.
David Bailey

Children, Teach, Terrible

My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.
David Bailey

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
Laurence Sterne

Mother, Wish, Both

Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including 'vice president,' that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.
Joe Biden

Proud, President, United

A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'
Lewis Black

Dad, Two, Start

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.
John Malkovich

Wrong, Whatever, Felt

My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.
John Malkovich

Strong, Influence

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
Maurice Sendak

Humor, Irony, Side

My father belonged to a Jewish social club.
Maurice Sendak

Social, Jewish, Club

I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.
Danielle Steel

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.
David Duchovny

Fear, Dad, Realize

Oh, Mrs. Churchill, do come over, someone has killed father.
Lizzie Andrew Borden

Someone, Oh, Churchill

I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.
Anthony Kiedis

Beautiful, Desire, Meet

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.
Stephen Sondheim

Days, Months, Oscar

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
Lawrence Welk

Family, Small, Loved

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
Lawrence Welk

Life, Brothers, Pleasant

My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.
Henry Louis Gates

Live, Words, Through

I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Mean, Memory, Six

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.
David Ogden Stiers

Faith, Family, Good

He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.
Haile Gebrselassie

Angry, Him, Remember

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
Barbra Streisand

Teacher, Mother, English

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
Barbra Streisand

Education, Society, School

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Special, Loved, Knew

If I'm going for advice for anything in my life, I go straight to my father because he has the answers.
Jessica Simpson

Life, Advice, Straight

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

God, Home, Wisdom

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
George McGovern

Love, Hate, Said

My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Pretty, High, Military

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

After, Born, Military

We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Parents, Different, Two

My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me.
Novak Djokovic

Family, Sacrifices, Talked

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