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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Did I become an entertainer because my father died and I wanted to be what he loved? I don't know.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really love the Olympics: Daley Thompson's back-flip, Derek Redmond's father helping him finish the 400m after his hamstring snapped at the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Sir Steve Redgrave - childhood memories are flooded with these moments and idols.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every year, my father comes by and samples the chremslach - like quality control - and tells me how they taste just like his mother's.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father left me when I was 6. My mother tried to take care of all of us on public assistance.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to go with my father to practice on the village pitch and with my friends.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 17 years old and missed many things about Barcelona, particularly the food. Fortunately, Sir Alex Ferguson realised my situation and helped me to grow. For me, the gaffer was like a second father.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A father draws boundaries and calls a halt, whenever necessary. As I didn't have that, I was able to stay childishly naive that much longer - so I did what I liked, because there was nobody stopping me, even when I got it wrong.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, unfortunately, my father passed away before my first book was published, so he never lived to see me as an author. But I think my mum was suitably pleased because she was mad about words. If she ever came across a word that she didn't know, she would always look it up in the dictionary.
- Father Figure
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's not a very intimidating father figure.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went on tour with my father, I knew he was a musician. But they were my parents. I still think of my mum as being kind of a dork - a cooler one, but still a dork.
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- Nov 07, 2020