Jane Ridley

To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear children, and this implies having autonomy or control over one's life. In the 19th century, becoming an adult was celebrated as a liberation from paternal authority. Today we regard it more as a time of regret and stagnation.

English Historian

Monica Bellucci

For me, true beauty has nothing to do with wrinkles and everything to do with the fact that my maternal grandmother raised five children just after the war and remained a fighter throughout her life. True beauty is the slick of red lipstick my paternal grandmother would put on before going to church on Sunday.

Italian Actress

Sarah Jeong

A cashless society promises a world of limitation, control, and surveillance - all of which the poorest Americans already have in abundance, of course. For the most vulnerable, the cashless society offers nothing substantively new; it only extends the reach of the existing paternal bureaucratic state.

American Journalist

Cass Sunstein

One of the things 'Star Wars' is most deeply about is fathers, sons, and redemption. In its own way, it points to the indispensability of paternal love, and it has a lot to say about the lengths to which people - boys or girls - will go to get it.

American Lawyer

Ed O'Neill

My paternal grandfather worked in the mill all his life. My father worked in the mill almost his whole life. I worked in the mill while I was going to college in the summers. And then, for one stretch, I quit school and worked one year.

American Actor

Ishaan Khatter

Shahid is a paternal figure to me. He's almost like a teacher. All my life, I've learned so much by watching him. I can't possibly consider him as competition to me. In fact, I would say, we're a team.

Indian Actor

Tony Danza

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.

Donald Trump, Jr.

My father is a very hardworking guy, and that's his focus in life, so I got a lot of the paternal attention that a boy wants and needs from my grandfather.

American Businessman

Rivers Cuomo

Cat Stevens' music, voice, and energy made me feel so secure. He sounded different from some of the paternal figures in my life, so gentle and kind.

American Musician

Elizabeth Rodriguez

I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey.

American Actress

Use 'paternal' to highlight traits or items inherited from the father's side of the family.

Inheritance Attribute

'Paternal' implies guidance or leadership like that of a father's role.

Fatherly Guidance

'Paternal' often conveys a warm, protective feeling, similar to a father’s love.

Affectionate Protection

'Paternal' can also suggest an assertive or controlling attitude, akin to a stereotypical father figure.

Authoritative Tone

Use 'paternal' to speak about ancestors or heritage specifically from the father’s line.

Family Lineage

'Paternal' may signify customs or traditions upheld by the father’s family.

Cultural Connection

Researchers often differentiate between 'paternal' and 'maternal' ancestors in genealogy.

Genealogical Research

'Paternal' can be used in legal or formal contexts related to paternal rights or inheritance.

Legal Context

 way up the ocean food chain is all my mother's food and they get not only the styrofoam from their bodies like chemicals that have been absorbed onto it we do suspect that have a styrofoam the paternal follows plastic it can get caught in the intestines that can block foods that can cause the turtle starve

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 In fact, there's probably not one single answer. Just as autism is a spectrum, there's a spectrum of etiologies, a spectrum of causes. Based on epidemiological data, we know that one of the causes, or one of the associations, I should say, is advanced paternal age,

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 are larger than the male look I mean this is a theory and I'm not a hundred percent sure I buy it but the idea is that the maternal instinct is stronger than the paternal instinct and that nature and its way has made the female birds bigger to protect their chicks

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 Almost none of its genes order proteins to be made. When these early cells divide, each passes on its X inactivation. So some clusters of cells express the maternal X chromosome, while others express the paternal X. If these chromosomes carry different traits,

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 women and actually want to have this conversation I come from a long line of strong women my paternal grandmother was a teacher a furious smoker a fast Walker and a supporter of a soccer team that most of her children detested my

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 are still at work analyzing the young warrior girl but this time they're not just looking into the girl's paternal lineage they're looking for details about her mom's side too because otherwise they'd only have half the story

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 and said, "Leymah, I have a nine-year-old for you. I want you to bring her home because we don't have safe homes." The story of this little She had been raped by her paternal grandfather every day for six months.

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 Chelly that first I was really negative about Navajo tradition because I grew up in the church my paternal grandfather was a preacher but my maternal grandfather said to me US natives after

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 have very high expectations of the government. They're just victims of a long-time autocracy, expecting a paternal state to solve all their problems. But this conclusion would ignore

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 paternal grandfather every day for six months she came to me bloated very pill every night I come from working lie on a cold floor she lies beside me and said

Paternal

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Fatherly Guidance

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