- 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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father always told my sisters and me that once you succeed, people will automatically be quiet. And he was right.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was my father's passion actually. I had never wished to become a wrestler. I was 12 when my father initiated me into this sport. Gradually, I started liking it and then it became my passion too.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I put my heart into 'Vaaranam Ayiram.' I lost my father when I began the film, and the tragedy turned my entire script around.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.
- Nov 07, 2020
Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
- Gets
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- Nov 07, 2020
But being a father is as good as it gets.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a father now puts life in perspective. My whole life it's all been about trying to win. And now I'm trying to make a better life for my son than I've had.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
- First One
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father always pretends to hate Christmas. But when we were children he was the first one waking us up, saying: 'Do you think Father Christmas has been yet?'
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020