#father

And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know. ↗

— Vince Gill

#away #back #burner #divorce #else

The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there's no way that's going to happen while I'm still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you're away from home for long periods. That's not the kind of father I want to be. ↗

— Jenson Button

#away #becoming #beyond #contemplate #dad

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers. ↗

— William Feather

#could #doing #followed #grandfathers #known

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. ↗

— Bob Feller

#baseball #behind #busy #corn #country

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. ↗

— John Updike

#children #decided #education #equipped #fathers

Father of four. I like the sound of that. ↗

— Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark

#four #i #like #sound

With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland. ↗

— Tycho Brahe

#below #conditions #earth #energetic #every

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#any #cannot #childhood #father #i

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more. ↗

— Gordon Brown

#father #i #matters #more #most

I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#father #hero #him #i #like