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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

– Sir William Schwenck GilbertRate it:

My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger.

– Aldous HuxleyRate it:

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. (On steel industry executives who increased prices)

– John Fitzgerald KennedyRate it:

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)

– John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]Rate it:

My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.'

– Jim FoxRate it:

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

– Lee IacoccaRate it:

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life.

– Elbert HubbardRate it:

My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

– Jorge Luis BorgesRate it:

My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60 years old, but apparently when he was 17, he had already planned his entire academic curriculum so that he could graduate high school and enter college in the United States. That's how much he wanted to come to this country.

– Raquel WelchRate it:

My father didn't tell me how to live he lived, and let me watch him do it.

– Clarence Buddinton KellandRate it:

My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

– Spike MilliganRate it:

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

– Peter De VriesRate it:

My father is a physicist - and to some extent he has some physicist's envy for my vocation.

– Ron JeremyRate it:

My father just didn’t want to believe something like that [genocide of the Jews] was possible — it’s very understandable. He just couldn’t believe the humanistic Germans he knew would do such a thin

– Barbara LedermannRate it:

My father just, literally, died in my arms. I notified all my kids and my lawyer notified Dina's attorney. Let's see if she has the decency and respect to bring my kids to the wake and funeral."OK! Magazine: Lindsay's Grandfather Dies (August 28, 2008)1

– Michael LohanRate it:

My father left us when I was 10, so I had to make enough money for us to be able to live in a house because my brother went in the service during Vietnam and I was sole support of my mother. And she had no skills, really, except to clean other people's houses. So I had to have a bunch of jobs, you know, as well as music.

– Bob SegerRate it:

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

– Fred AllenRate it:

My father once told me that being in the company of good people is like being in a fragrance mart. Whether you buy any perfume or not, you'll always come out refreshed, rejuvenated, and smelling absolutely fabulous.

– Deodatta V. Shenai-KhatkhateRate it:

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

– Athena AthenaRate it:

My father said, 'Politics asks the question Is it expedient Vanity asks Is it popular But conscience asks Is it right'

– Dexter Scott KingRate it:

My father said: You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals.

– J. Paul GettyRate it:

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

– Abraham LincolnRate it:

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work.

– Abraham LincolnRate it:

My father used to have an expression: 'It's a lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do, and thinks it still matters.'

– Joe BidenRate it:

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