- 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
- Early Years
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't remember much of my childhood. My father passed away when I was six, and sadly, I don't have the fuzziest, foggiest memory of him - what his voice was like, anything he ever said to me, nothing. My early years are a total blur.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn't know what I was doing half the time.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved playing tennis. When I was 12, my parents decided that I should try to do it seriously. My father started to travel with me, and as a family, we tried to make it work.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father wasn't allowing me control and the financial freedom that I was asking for. I was 17, about to be 18 within a year, so I started asking more questions because I felt that I needed to start learning about those things.
- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can barely recall a single holiday when my father didn't make a scene or create some kind of chaos. We were always walking on eggshells.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moved to the States from London when I was 12 years old. My father was in a band and wanted to tour, so we moved here, but it wasn't until I moved to Williamsburg and had my son that I felt like I finally belonged.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up always around music through my father - I would play in music studios with him as I was growing up - and my high school, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to learn to respect the relationship my son had with his father outside of the three of us.
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a family where my father was in a rock band, and I saw and heard every story.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been very certain about not wanting to do the acting thing because of my father. I thought I'd always have the father-son thing of 'He got you the part.'
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020