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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
- Nov 07, 2020
I did not get into a fistfight with my father at my sister's wedding. My sister didn't have a wedding.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had heard a lot of stories about my father and celebrities, most of them from his own mouth. In his stories, famous women flirted with him outrageously and helplessly, and famous men sought his company, paid him deference, or took umbrage after being upstaged by him.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought all kinds of unscrupulous oiks back home - earless, toothless vagabonds - to teach me the arts of the old bagarre.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a religious family - my father is a pastor, my uncle, my sister and her husband are a pastor team.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I really wanted to do was take this character and go beneath the veneer of Lucifer. Underneath it all, there was a guy who was a hurt soul and rejected from his father. How that played upon his choices was kind of interesting, but also it's going inside a shell of someone who doesn't know what an emotion is.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real test of an anchor is when there's a very big event. Sept. 11 is the quintessential example of that, and that day it took everything that I knew as an anchor, as a citizen, as a father, as a husband, to get through it.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, I've had a lot of different jobs - newspaper boy, dish washer, naval flight officer, Amtrak board member, Governor and chairman of the National Governors Association - just to name a few. But my most cherished job - and frankly my most important job for that matter - is being a father.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father and mother are Muslims. But from the moment I started talking, I decided I was a Christian. They let me.
- Nov 07, 2020
As the father of three daughters, I can tell you, not every kid is cut out to be a STEM graduate.
- Baseman
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued - with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges, and then I ended up bailing and began cooking.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020