#father

My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#father #had #house #known #me

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#born #copper #father #i #i was born

My father's sister never married in order to raise me. ↗

— Marcel Carne

#married #me #never #order #raise

My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#australia #china #earth #ever #every

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell. ↗

— Julian Clary

#because #dead #died #grandfather #him

My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#any #anything #back #basic #classes

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist. ↗

— Ray Conniff

#artist #conversations #father #friends #i

I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be father I would like to be more grounded. ↗

— John Corbett

#because #father #future #going #grounded

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#considers #else #father #his #husband

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#father #me #mother #protected #threatened