- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Father Quotes
On fathers, faith, and what gets passed down.
This collection includes a personal account of learning Catholic prayer practice during a conversion, and a decision two parents made together about which faith tradition their child would follow. For devotional reading, see Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Footballer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Besides my father, who used to be a footballer at the local level, it is Messi for whom I started to play football.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father.
- Engineering
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 15, 1916. My father, an electrical engineer, had come to the United States in 1903 after earning his engineering diploma at the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt, Germany.
- Devon
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to the Philippines to follow my father who came here earlier, looking for a better life. I helped my father in our sari-sari store. I also asked him if I could go back to school so I could learn English and improve myself.
- Good Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
My number-one goal was just to be a good person, a good father, a good husband and then, after that, was to be an Olympic champ and eventually a UFC champ. And I've done everything I've ever kinda set my mind to.
- Himself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the middle ones in the flock, I was born on July 24, 1857, in the small Jutland town of Fredericia. In 1863, my father was transferred to Randers, another Jutland town, where a year later, at the age of six, I experienced the invasion of the allied Prussian and Austrian armies.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
As tough as it was for us with my father gone, my mother and sister were always pushing me. They even let me go to Brazil by myself when I was 13 to train with Sao Paulo for four months.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020