- Care
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.
- Nov 07, 2020
My father is the oldest of seven boys.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved 'Gladiator' when I was young. Russell Crowe was a big inspiration; the fact that he plays my father in 'Noah' was amazing.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now I'm the father of three children; I'm not able to go live on a bus and do semesters around the country like I did when I was young.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no particular desire to be a personality like my father, nor was I equipped to be one. I was determined to be my own man, although having the Fairbanks name did make it easier to get into an office to see someone.
- Figure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sort of a father figure to a lot of these players.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's a police officer, and he's told me numerous times about his training and how they've gone through what they call verbal judo, which is essentially them trying to de-escalate the situation.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our father never had to yell at us much when we were growing up. No one ever wanted to let Dad down.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020