Eleanor Roosevelt
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My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life aft... 
My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he becam... 
My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be fu... 
My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in Ame... 
He was an important part of my life. He introduced me to the game at 4, and for the next 24 years, h... 
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea... 
It's true my father abused me and didn't love and protect me the way he should have, and at ... 
My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit ... 
There were so many versions out there, and he (Roosevelt) was bothered by it. He asked my father to ... 
..my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understa... 
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Buddha gives me the strength to bring my words to life and he gives me the strength to share my love... 
Eric was holding my hands, and I was digging my nails into him like we were doing something else. He... 
When he mentioned family, I could only think of my father, my real father, the Long Island janitor w... 
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... 
I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father fi... 
Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as... 
My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parent... 
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a... 
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... 
He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if t... 
When my father died, those years when he was working on the Hubble came back to me, and it seemed fi... 
Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the b... 
I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played... 
To my guy. May he win every game he chooses to play, have many reasons to laugh, more successes than... 
My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time ... 
My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down tha... 
How you’ve always felt?” “I’ve loved you my entire life,” he said, eyes locked on mine. �... 
My grandpa didn't believe in hugging and kissing, or saying "I love you." His love had to do with th... 
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My father didn't tell me how to live;
I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, ... 
The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he l... 
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He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. 
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. 
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