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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways  (My Father Quotes) My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family’s subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father  (My Father Quotes) In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on  (My Father Quotes) My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life  (My Father Quotes) My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father  (My Father Quotes) When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?  (My Father Quotes) I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn’t real healthy  (My Father Quotes) I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery  (My Father Quotes) I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends  (My Father Quotes) My father’s generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance  (My Father Quotes) My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat’s daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on  (My Father Quotes) In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I’m often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly  (My Father Quotes) I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps  (My Father Quotes) My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing  (My Father Quotes) My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family  (My Father Quotes) I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I’m sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled  (My Father Quotes) My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well  (My Father Quotes) I’ve always followed my father’s advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble  (My Father Quotes) My father’s nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him  (My Father Quotes) My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment... There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs  (My Father Quotes) I don’t remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn  (My Father Quotes) I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us to discover the world for ourselves  (My Father Quotes) My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff  (My Father Quotes) I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller’s thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become,during his earlier years of a miller’s life  (My Father Quotes) Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him  (My Father Quotes) When my mother died, my father’s early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached  (My Father Quotes) There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer  (My Father Quotes) One of my father’s most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will  (My Father Quotes) My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night  (My Father Quotes) My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect  (My Father Quotes)
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