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My Father Quotes

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Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic  (My Father Quotes) My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn’t pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year’s time  (My Father Quotes) My parents came from different backgrounds. My father’s was grander than my mother’s, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father’s relations  (My Father Quotes) When I was young, before school, my father would wake me up and we would go running together. A love of being physical, being active and being outside was something he instilled in me  (My Father Quotes) My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image  (My Father Quotes) I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life  (My Father Quotes) I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time  (My Father Quotes) I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a.22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel.410 shotgun when I was 10  (My Father Quotes) My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn’t like people who had no sense of humour  (My Father Quotes) I believe my father has and always will be the strongest influence in my life, as he has guided me on many paths  (My Father Quotes) If it wasn’t for my sport and my father, I’d probably be a fallen statistic. I’d be dead; I’d be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life  (My Father Quotes) I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I’m working with, or mother, if I’m working with a female, or it can be confused  (My Father Quotes) My father who was there in the house, he wasn’t at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through  (My Father Quotes) My father is an intellectual and physical man, which is a rather unusual combination. He’s great. As he brought up me and my brothers and sisters, he ingrained in us that your appearance is not your responsibility, other than that you should not be a slob  (My Father Quotes) I never knew my father, and I’d hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I’d also want to be there for them no matter what  (My Father Quotes) I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron  (My Father Quotes) My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you’ve done your best, you’ve done well enough  (My Father Quotes) I remember from my father’s funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image  (My Father Quotes) I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father’s livestock while he was away on holiday  (My Father Quotes) My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy’s little girl. He was my first soccer coach  (My Father Quotes) If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets  (My Father Quotes) At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking back, I now see so many similarities between my own childhood and that of my sons. My father stepped in when I needed him, and that gave me the chance for a better life. That’s what I’m doing for my boys now  (My Father Quotes) In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you’re faced with that situation. I know that my father was, with me. I understand why he had to be distant, because to rip yourself away, time after time, is almost more devastating  (My Father Quotes) Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died  (My Father Quotes) My father always told me that in this world we are going to make a truckload of mistakes, but the best mistake we can ever make is to err on the side of mercy  (My Father Quotes) My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and called the police to report him for child molesting. He had never molested me, but I wanted to have a party that weekend and needed him out of the house  (My Father Quotes) And then there came into my heart a very great love for my father and I thought it was very much braver to spend a life doing what you really do not want rather than selfishly following forever your own dreams and inclinations  (My Father Quotes) The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body  (My Father Quotes) Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn’t change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time  (My Father Quotes) One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn’t have a fireplace  (My Father Quotes)
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