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Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father. -- Sitting Bull
Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets. Whose voice was first surrounded on this land - the red people with bows and arrows. The Great Father says he is good and kind to us. I can't see it... -- Red Cloud
This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things... This war has come from robbery - from the stealing of our land. -- Spotted Tail
Real Womanhood isnâ??t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father. -- Ann Voskamp
But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody. -- Kid Rock
When you're gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a great father.' -- Steve Blank
I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father. -- Deion Sanders
I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children. -- Johann Hari
This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too. -- Harlan Coben
I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do. -- Mike Myers
We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, "God is love " ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me. -- Matthew Modine
I have moved on and I am in a good place. My relationship with Tiger is centered around our children and we are doing really good - we really are - and I am so happy that is the case. He is a great father. -- Elin Nordegren
We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens. -- Garrison Keillor
My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an actor. But instead he did two jobs. He did customer service at a hospital and he worked as a waiter at night. He pretty much sacrificed everything for his daughters. -- Sherri Shepherd
Roberto Clemente played the game of baseball with great passion. That passion could only be matched by his unrelenting commitment to make a difference in the lives of the less fortunate and those in need. People saw Roberto as a great ballplayer and humanitarian. He was also a great father, husband, teammate and friend. -- Manny Sanguillen
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I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a great father and such a great husband in so many ways, and we lived through some pretty tough times losing my mom. When I see all that he did, I think, Wow, thats a really wonderful man. -- Emmanuelle Chriqui
My father was a great actor. -- Stephen Humphrey Bogart
Many great stories are father issues, mother issues or death. -- Kathleen Kennedy
And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father. -- Angelina Jolie
He was a combat veteran from Korea, and he was a great father. -- Mike Pence
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad. -- Beau Bridges
He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex. -- Sarah Ferguson
I'd love to have a great relationship with my father. And unfortunately... I don't. -- Angelina Jolie
My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character. -- Olivia Williams
My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband. -- Pamela Anderson
My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918. -- James Rainwater
I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend. -- Dante Hall
Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read. -- Michael Foot
My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel. -- Anne Waldman
I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father. -- Tyler Perry
Being a father is just great. I love every minute - even the rubbish, middle-of-the night stuff. -- Tom Ward
My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening. -- Zoe Wanamaker
I've never made an excuse of not knowing my father, because I've had great people in my life. -- Naomi Campbell
Mel Gibson's father doesn't think there was a Holocaust? Great. I don't think there's a movie. We're even. -- Joan Rivers
My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well. -- Dorothy Hamill
My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision. -- Ahmet Ertegun
We had a great time on the bench talking about crime, mother-stabbin', father raping, all kinds of groovy things. -- Arlo Guthrie
I had a great family. My father was in the Air Force, so we were always disciplined, goal oriented. -- Thomas Jones
I had a great view of the sunset. At least until father went and changed the channel. Dammit, dad! -- Jarod Kintz
It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther. -- Richard L. Evans
The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted. -- Dan Rather
My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34. -- John Gokongwei
Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions -- Bryant McGill
Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions. -- Bryant H. McGill
Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins. -- Major Taylor
Being a father is the greatest achievement and the most important thing about me. I have two great kids, no question. -- Ryan Phillippe
My father [Erwin Rommel] believed that Germany should have a great interest to leave the war with a peace under conditions. -- Manfred Rommel
I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer. -- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison. -- Oscar Wilde
My father was a great fan of the horses. His only regret was that I never ran in the Grand National. -- Steve Ovett
My father Big Max told me many years ago that 'anything you are good at will contribute to your happiness'. Great advice. -- Max Walker
I know that God our Father is in this work in great congregations . . . and in the smallest branch and the smallest congregation. -- Loren C. Dunn
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 Iacocca
My father went to Rutgers, and I grew up in New Jersey, so I'm a great Rutgers fan. I have season tickets. -- Peter Eisenman
Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you. -- N.D. Wilson
Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration. -- James E. Faust
Work is a great thing. This is something my father taught me. He didn't want me to grow up to be somebody's wife. -- Giovanna Cau
To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy. -- Nelson Mandela
My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative. -- Rose Kennedy
Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator. -- Anthony Kiedis
People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man. -- Dhani Harrison
The way my father raised me, we don't pat ourselves on the back. We don't call ourselves great, we let other people do that. -- Andre Ward
Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13. -- Larry Elder
My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays. -- Noam Chomsky
Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and my father. -- Indira Gandhi
Working with my father [Stephen Hawking ] is a great thrill - he has the amazing ability to hold enormous amounts of information in his head. -- Stephen Hawking
The great Sugambrian shrugged. I did. I supposed you've proven your worth. But no man should have to kill his own father. I should know. -- Jason Born
I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends. -- Ivanka Trump
[M]y father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it. -- John S. Hall
I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great broadcaster. -- Jonathan Dimbleby
The great challenge is to discover that we are truly invited to participate in the divine life of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. -- Henri Nouwen
One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity. -- Jeff Raikes
I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride. -- Ed Koch
The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate. -- Bernard Williams
[I want to be remembered] as a great servant of God who tried to give back as much as possible, and as a great father and husband. -- Mark Wahlberg
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
Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer. -- Lord Byron
When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work. -- Clint Eastwood
What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people and wants to go home. -- Leonard Peltier
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. -- William Penn
It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven. -- Hosea Ballou
My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather. -- Claire Denis
I always knew I wanted a great man of God, someone who was going to be an inspiration for people and also be a lovely husband and father. -- Katy Perry
As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased. -- George Steinbrenner
I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen. -- Matthew McConaughey
Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life. -- Samuel Smiles
My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit. -- Donald Barthelme
I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the fabric industry, and even my grandfather and my great-grandfather were lace manufacturers. -- Stacey Bendet
He wasn't a great father. He was a great musician. That's always been a touchy one, and it will be until I can find the answer, but I don't know if there is one. -- Julian Lennon
I feel very blessed to have a partner in life who supports me, who is enthusiastic about what I want to do, who has been a great father, and who will be a fabulous grandfather. -- Hillary Clinton

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