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A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
William Graham Sumner

Good, Son, Encourage

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

My first choice had always been my father. He's still my first pick. Now that the nominating process is over, tonight, I'm happy to announce that I'm going to be supporting Governor Romney.
Rand Paul

Happy, Choice, Process

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.
Arlen Specter

Success, Money, Great

My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.
Nicolas Cage

Getting, Excited, Inside

Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.
Nicolas Cage

Changed, Fatherhood, Realise

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.
Ken MacLeod

Lies, Devil, Internet

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.
Ray Romano

Once, Accountant, Hugged

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
Haile Gebrselassie

Good, Money, Fun

So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.
Buffalo Bill

Death, Friends, Found

With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
Buffalo Bill

Home, Help, Friend

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.
Patti Smith

Beautiful, Mother, Wanted

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.
Patti Smith

Mom, Rock, Play

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.
Russell Baker

Friend, Writing, Thinking

My father was a manual worker.
Diane Abbott

I wish I looked more like my mother, but I think I look like my father. I wish I had one of those naturally beautiful faces. Or a more quirky face. I'm right down the middle: not interesting enough, not pretty enough.
Chloe Sevigny

Beautiful, Mother, Down

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.
Roger Waters

Best, Poetry, Happen

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
Hugh Leonard

Family, Mother, She

Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.
Twyla Tharp

Time, Gift, Along

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
V. S. Naipaul

Nothing, Thinking, Made

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
V. S. Naipaul

Mother, Cannot, Beyond

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
V. S. Naipaul

Read, Stories, Becoming

I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.
Gary Oldman

Love, Good, Anger

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Harold Coffin

Age, Nature, Time

My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life.
Christopher Walken

Life, Good, America

One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father.
Christopher Walken

Time, Long, Play

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.
Christopher Walken

Job, Loved, Week

I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.
Christopher Walken

Love, Used, Anymore

My father's a character.
Bryan Adams

I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person.
Tim Roth

Real, Person, Bored

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