Family Me Father Quotes - Page 1

The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.
John Irving / Novelist
Childhood
Principal
Adult
Family Me Father
Family Childhood Me
Family Childhood Father
Event
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My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.
T.i. / Rapper
Family
Friends
Childhood
Family And Friends
Father
Grandfather
Mother
Family Mother Childhood
Family Me Father
Family Childhood Me
Name
Call
Family Childhood Father
Gave
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My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.
Peter Diamandis / Physician
Doctors
Expected
Father
Greek
Islands
Family Me Father
Family Doctor Me
Doctor
Family Doctor Father
Island
Physician
Picking
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My father's family can be traced back to 1400. I've been told by gypsies that there is unmistakeably gypsy blood in me. Lee is a gypsy name, you know.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Blood
Family Me Father
Family Father Me
Gypsies
Lee
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When I was somewhere between child and adult, my father left us. My first family broke apart, but this liberated me to create a new family as I pleased.
Rumaan Alam /
Broke
Liberated
Family Me Father
Family Father Me
Pleased
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I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.
P. C. Cast / Author
Daughter
Teacher
Diploma
Don't Care
Mother
Family Me Father
Teachers
Bathtub
Drown
Family Father Me
Graduate
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My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.
Hanif Kureishi / Playwright
Family
Jobs
Big Deal
Father
Mean
Respectability
Servant
Support
Family Me Father
Job
Civil
Civil Servant
Deal
Family Father Me
Having
Regular
Sense
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The idea of having proper qualifications had been very much ingrained in me. My father had a steady job for the Potato Marketing Board, and the family emphasis was on getting to university.
Roger Taylor / Musician
Emphasis
Marketing
Qualifications
Steady
University
Family Me Father
Board
Family Father Me
Ingrained
Potato
Proper
Steady Job
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Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
Madonna Ciccone / Singer-Songwriter
Family
Convinced
Dancing
Father
Lessons
Musical
Two
Years
Family Me Father
Studied
Family Father Me
Instrument
Musical Instrument
Piano Lessons
Somehow
Took
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My father's failures inspired me the most and still drive me. He worked for 10 years, but wasn't invited to award functions, forget being nominated. So winning even one trophy is a high for our family.
Amaal Mallik /
Invited
Family Me Father
Award
Functions
Family Father Me
Nominated
Trophy
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My father gave me an old Olympia portable when I was in fourth grade. Our ancestors came from Ireland. Our family stories of immigration helped me understand more about my characters in 'The Lemon Orchard.'
Luanne Rice / Author
Fourth
Immigration
Ireland
Orchard
Family Me Father
Ancestors
Family Father Me
Grade
Helped
Lemon
Portable
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I grew up not really having a father figure, and it didn't bother me, because he wasn't there in the first place. But then he started other families, and I was jealous. It was like he was happy without our family.
Labrinth /
Jealous
Bother
Father Figure
Grew
Family Me Father
Families
Figure
Family Father Me
Having
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
Salman Rushdie / Novelist
Dalai
Father
Grandfather
Indian
Lama
Mother
Religious
Wisest
Family Me Father
Family Doctor Me
Doctor
Family Doctor Father
Dalai Lama
Deeply
Unlike
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'Catcher In The Rye' was my favorite book, honestly. I read it when I was thirteen, and the book was a bit of a family heirloom because it was passed down from my grandfather to my father to my older brother and then to me.
Alex Wolff /
Grandfather
Older Brother
Thirteen
Family Me Father
Catcher
Catcher In The Rye
Family Father Me
Passed
Rye
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Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.
Laura Dern / Actress
Family Me Father
Bruce
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My father discovered that our family had made long-case clocks in Warwickshire in the early 18th century. He managed to track down a fine example through an English antiquarian and horologist and gifted it to me for my 30th birthday.
Alexander Gilkes /
Birthday
Gifted
Family Me Father
Clocks
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Using the Africanist model, each generation should take the family name to a higher place. My father's folks were sharecroppers in South Carolina. He went to Harlem. They were still poor, but they moved up. If my parents didn't do this and offer me this background, I wouldn't be here.
Ving Rhames / Actor
Carolina
South Carolina
Family Me Father
Each Generation
Family Father Me
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My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been thirty-one. Then there was my twin brother and my sister. We had two aunts as well, my father's sisters. But the immediate family consisted of my mother, my brother, my sister, and me.
Derek Walcott / Poet
Family Background
Family Me Father
Family Mother Me
Aunts
Sisters
Widow
Consists
Twin
Family Father Me
Immediate
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He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression... I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent. I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.
Ronan Farrow / Activist
Family
Relationship
Sister
Adopted
Brother In Law
Consistent
Insult
Married
Moral
Son
Transgression
Family Me Father
Family Relationship Me
Relationship Me Father
He
Cannot
Family Relationship Father
Say
Him
His
Makes
See
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All my family worked for Puma. My mother worked there, and my father was the guy that opened and closed up in the evening. We lived in the neighbouring building - just a couple of steps, and I would be in the Puma factory. All 300 people that worked there knew me; it was my adventure playground. I knew everything, even how to make a shoe sole.
Lothar Matthaus /
Adventure
Evening
Sole
Steps
Family Me Father
Closed
Factory
Opened
Playground
Shoe
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