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Hopefully it`s a life positive thing that I`ve been been blessed to be balled into for a lack of a better way to put it. I find younger people less conditioned and therefore more alive. I don`t take a paternal or authority position with them; I don`t play mentor. I try to relate to them on a peer level. I`m trying to function totally in the moment.

- Harry Dean Stanton

I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I`ve got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You`ve got to deal with this better.

- Tony Danza

Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.

- Andrea Solari

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

- Andrew Bosomworth

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.

- Thomas W. Higginson