{"quotes":[{"text":"I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... He failed, basically.","author":"Ben Affleck","tags":["fear","father","child "],"id":104,"author_id":"Ben+Affleck"},{"text":"I believe to be a leader is to enable others to embrace a vision, initiative or assignment in a way that they feel a sense of purpose, ownership, personal engagement, and common cause. I was very affected as a child by my father's positive example as a civic leader who inspired others to share his commitment to improving our community.","author":"Melanne Verveer","tags":["father","community","leader "],"id":287,"author_id":"Melanne+Verveer"},{"text":"My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.","author":"Lewis Black","tags":["father","mother","parents "],"id":1939,"author_id":"Lewis+Black"},{"text":"Though he wouldn’t take it or offer it back, she gave. She squeezed it into him and held it there. She accepted him. She loved him in his wretchedness, kissed his ragged cheek, and called him /father./.","author":"A.S. Peterson","tags":["daughter","father","forgiveness","forgiving-your-father","love"],"id":2750,"author_id":"A.S.+Peterson"},{"text":"God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.","author":"Alexandre Dumas","tags":["alexandre-dumas","father","god","judge","justice","religion","the-count-of-monte-cristo"],"id":2935,"author_id":"Alexandre+Dumas"},{"text":"Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.","author":"Carol Ann Duffy","tags":["father","believe","i believe "],"id":3097,"author_id":"Carol+Ann+Duffy"},{"text":"I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.","author":"Joel Osteen","tags":["father","god","decision "],"id":3280,"author_id":"Joel+Osteen"},{"text":"When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.","author":"A. R. Rahman","tags":["father","myself","i am "],"id":3540,"author_id":"A.+R.+Rahman"},{"text":"I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.","author":"Tim Burton","tags":["father","three","saying "],"id":3623,"author_id":"Tim+Burton"},{"text":"If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... Autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.","author":"Karen DeCrow","tags":["women","father","support "],"id":3954,"author_id":"Karen+DeCrow"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":1360,"pages":136,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}