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"My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city."

Richard Ernst, Swiss Scientist

Father, School, Teaching

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"Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments."

Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabian Criminal

Father, Expertise, Forget, Fraud

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"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you."

Jesus Christ, Jewish Clergyman

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"My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act."

Gwyneth Paltrow, American Actress

Father, Dad, Time, Act, Want

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"I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have."

Lou Henry Hoover, American First Lady

Father, Thought, Camping, Fishing

"He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant."

George Martin, English Producer

"Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible."

Shia LaBeouf, American Actor

Father, Dad, Class, Country

"Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession."

Frederick Sanger, English Scientist

Father, Goal, Career, Medicine

"What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener."

Dan DeCarlo, American Cartoonist

"My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends."

Winona Ryder, American Actress

Father, Dad, Music, Life, Friends

"But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there."

Robert Klein, American Comedian

Father, Difference, Drama, Ivy

"I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs."

Miley Cyrus, American Musician

Father, Dad, Songs, Writing

"Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron."

Lizzie Andrew Borden, American Celebrity

Father, Kitchen, Office, Post

"But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24."

Rachael Leigh Cook, American Actress

Father, Dad, Mom, Mother

"My father was a writer and an acting teacher."

Noah Hathaway, American Actor

Father, Acting, Writer

"And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father."

Angelina Jolie, American Actress

Father, Dad, Actor

"I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife."

John Lithgow, American Actor

Father, Wife, Decisions, Fun

"My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much."

Skeet Ulrich, American Actor

Father, Dad, Mom

"A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool."

Michael Bergin, American Actor

Father, Disappointment

"We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did."

Thomas Goodwin, English Clergyman

Father, Fathers, Promise

"Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically."

Geoffrey Rush, Australian Actor

Father, Dad, Time, People, Ideas

"My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?"

Henny Youngman, American Comedian

Father, Dad, Time

"My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn't have anything left to give."

Scott Stapp, American Musician

Father, Dad, Heart

"My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments."

Alexandra Kosteniuk, Russian Celebrity

Father, Dad, Life, Army, Career

"I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often."

Nancy Sinatra, American Musician

Father, Dad, Family, Travel, Time

"My father was gone when I was three years old."

Marc Wallice, American Actor

Father, Old, Years

"My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager."

Robbie Coltrane, Scottish Actor

Father, Dad, Time, Parents, Past

"My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea."

Eric Bristow, American Celebrity

"Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day."

Jay Leno, American Comedian

Father, Dad, Mother, Wife, Day

"More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad."

Kurtwood Smith, American Actor

Father, Dad, Character, Now

"I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children."

Ricky Skaggs, American Musician

Father, Children

"I wanted to grow up to be just like my father."

Michael Bergin, American Actor

"There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did."

Owen Hart, Canadian Entertainer

Father, Dad, End, Shame

"My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants."

Jim Fowler, American Scientist

Father, Being, Plants, Trees

"And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan."

David Bowie, English Musician

Father, Dad, Thought, Play

"He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing."

Anne Heche, American Actress

"My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general."

Robert Duvall, American Actor

Father, People, Play

"My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart."

Jessica Simpson, American Musician

Father, Dad, Manager, Heart, Care

"As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted."

Manfred von Richthofen, German Aviator

"I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude."

Desi Arnaz, American Actor

Father, Survival, First, Years

"As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end."

Stacy Keach, American Actor

Father, Dad, Conscience, Deep, Electricity

"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

Father, Nothing

"My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen."

Jonny Lang, American Musician

Father, Dad, Friends, Guitar, Medicine

"My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh."

Dominic Monaghan, Irish Actor

Father, Dad, Mom, Fact

"The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me."

Katie Price, english Model

Father, Dad, Trust

"When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part."

Amy Irving, American Actress

Father, Dad, Home, Career, Children

"Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes."

Prince Charles, English Royalty

Father, Dress, Eyes, Lady

"Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics."

Paul Lynde, American Comedian

Father, Dad, Politics, Funny, Grief

"Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another."

Soundarya, Indian Actress

Father, Dad, Science, College, Medicine

"It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'"

Ellen Muth, American Actress

Father, Thought, Rejection, Ruin

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