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My father hasn't told me about it but he showed me the straight path
— Fahmid Hassan Prohor
I always saw myself as really ugly. My father even told me I was ugly because I would shave my head and look like a boy.
— Asia Argento
But my father told me, and my grandmother told him, whenever you try to change something, you sacrifice something else.
— Heidi Heilig
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
— Dawn French
The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.
— Madeleine Albright
My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.
— Tom Dreesen
I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me.
— Anne Heche
My father told me abuse is generational.
— Glenn Beck
If I was a father, and my son told me he wanted to go out and be a publisher, I'd say, 'Go get a job.'
— Richard Chizmar
My father once told me, and it's stuck with me to this day: As you walk through life, every time you fart it pushes you forward.
— Bob Saget
My parents have always told me to work hard. My father was a friend, a very good friend, but when he needed to be a father, he was.
— Jeev Milkha Singh
When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.'
— Jan Hutchins
My father served in Vietnam. When I was young he told me that everyone needs an emotional foxhole. A place to hide when life's storms hit.
— Richard Paul Evans
When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.
— Michael Leunig
Like my father told me, if at first you don't succeed, try again. And again. And again. But after that, give up. It's no good being stubborn.
— Bryce C. Anderson
I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.
— Harry Frankfurt
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
— Imelda Marcos
My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.
— Tana French
There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
— George R R Martin
My father once told me love is magic, sir.
— Victoria Alexander
My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
— Haile Gebrselassie
My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
— T. J. Miller
My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.'
— Dave Chappelle
My father once told me that it's not enough for a man to be lucky; that a guy has to know when that streak is on for him.
— Henry Mosquera
Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading. Teach
— Harper Lee
My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty one.
— Bob Hope
My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work.
— Bill Russell
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.
— Jane Seymour
When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.
— Domhnall Gleeson
I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
— Jay London
My father didn't like people. He didn't like me. "Children should be seen and not heard," he told me.
— Charles Bukowski
My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories.
— Eula Biss
I know who you are. My father told me stories about you. He talked about your hands- hands that created the world surrendered to cruel nails
— G.P. Taylor
My father always told me to wisen up, son.
Cause if you hung with nine broke friends, you're bound to be the tenth one. — PMD
Cause if you hung with nine broke friends, you're bound to be the tenth one. — PMD
I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me. It was a part of my family.
— Susan Stroman
My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a lot of it just clings.
— Ellen Klages
When I started racing my father told me, 'Cristiano, nobody has three balls but some people have two very good ones.'
— Cristiano Da Matta
My father told me, never have partners.
— Howard Hughes
My father always told me, 'Don't waste energy worrying about things you can't control. Spend your energy focusing on solutions'.
— Jared Kushner
I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook.
— Bill Cosby
My father told and taught me that the word, can hit harder than the fist.
— Wladimir Klitschko
My father said the weakest camel draws the wolves."
"Mine told me to hide until the wolves go away," Abban replied. — Peter V. Brett
"Mine told me to hide until the wolves go away," Abban replied. — Peter V. Brett
I grew up in a second when my mother died," he told Sunil. "My father and brother didn't understand me.
— Katherine Boo
My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.
— Chazz Palminteri
My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.
— Haruki Murakami
My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
My father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people you're with.
— Mario Van Peebles
There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.
— John Dufresne
To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.
— Marita Golden
I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.
— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.
— Sam Raimi
My father once told me about a city on the other side of the sky.
Gods watch over us from there. — Mervin Ignacio
Gods watch over us from there. — Mervin Ignacio
More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, "The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under your eye, and in your heart."
— Martin Niemoller
My father Big Max told me many years ago that 'anything you are good at will contribute to your happiness'. Great advice.
— Max Walker
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
The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'
— Dinah Shore
My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.
— Mia Farrow
My mother spoke to me this morning, she told me that my father is beginning to think of suitors for me to marry.
— Emily Whitaker
My father told me I should marry the woman that loves me, not the woman I loved.
— Leon G. Cooperman