#father

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. ↗

— Erica Jong

#forebears #grandfather #living #mother #painted

My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair. ↗

— June Jordan

#big #both #fair #father #fight

I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways. ↗

— Vanessa Kerry

#close #death #difficult #father #gaping

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father. ↗

— Black Kettle

#father #hand #hold #our #our father

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#could #credit #credit card #father #get

What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you don't protect it, you lose it. ↗

— Dexter S. King

#did #doing #everybody #father #follow

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

#difference #drama #drama school #father #go

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside. ↗

— Aaron Klug

#cattle #countryside #fact #father #grew

I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he helped liberate Dachau in the 7th Army. ↗

— Ed Royce

#army #father #had #helped #i

Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#bad #father #golfer #good #good father