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I remember my late father, who was the biggest football fan I have ever known, used to stress when I was younger that, win or lose, you always have to compete with honor. -- Adam Richman
People of Haiti, I am the heir to the political philosophy, the doctrine and the revolution which my late father incarnated as president-for-life [and] I have decided to continue his work with the same fierce energy and the same intransigence. -- Jean-Claude Duvalier
I can only say that I'm certainly relieved that my late father never did business with Donald Trump. He provided a good middle-class life for us, but the people he worked for, he expected the bargain to be kept on both sides. -- Hillary Clinton
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After finishing the gymnasium in Muenchen with 9 years of Latin and 6 years of ancient Greek, history and philosophy, I decided to become a physicist. The great theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, an university colleague of my late father, advised me to begin with an apprenticeship in precision mechanics. -- Wolfgang Paul
My mother left my father in their late 60s. -- Dito Montiel
My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. -- John Major
My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor. -- Steve Case
I started writing serious books so late because I knew I'd be accused of riding on my father's coattails. -- Thomas Steinbeck
My father - the late Madhavrao Scindia - was clear about the distinction between being 'loving' and 'strict.' -- Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
I grew up watching and learning from the ultimate partnership, and that is of my father and late uncle. -- Jonathan Tisch
When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood. -- Marc Davis
During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted. -- Vidal Sassoon
When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective. -- Christine Lagarde
Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic. -- Chuck Close
My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was. -- John Burnside
We arrived the way most emigrant families did. My father came first, and the rest of us - my mother, my sister and me - followed a year later. -- Chang-Rae Lee
My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors. -- Ed Begley, Jr.
My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn't take very good care of himself. -- Clint Eastwood
My father, Melvin van Peebles, and my mother were both very active politically when I was a kid. The first time I was allowed to stay up late was to attend a demonstration. -- Mario Van Peebles
Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood. -- Patti Davis
My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught. -- Ruth Rendell
My father served as an Army doctor in West Germany in the late '50s and early '60s. As a result, he and my mother - both native southerners - were acutely aware of what had happened during the Holocaust. -- Greg Iles
My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college. -- Steve Jobs
My late father used to say that they started out without two nickles to rub together and lived in that little house in Everroad Park West. -- Mike Pence
It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs. -- Melina Marchetta

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