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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
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of course I could play guitar better than him when I was about 12. But I couldn't paint better than him. So I went, 'I'm going to be the guitarist of the house, not the painter.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read the dictionary when I was little - but my attention span is poor. Takes me months to read one book.
- Perfection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big Foster is a guy who was in line to be the head of this clan that's been up in the mountains for 200 years, because his father was the leader or the Bren'in, his mother is now Bren'in, and they're kind of royalty, so he was in line to be next. He'd been promised it from a young age, but it just hasn't happened.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, my father is bald, but I found a way to save my hair. I met with a doctor in Brazil who has developed a special treatment.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.
- Nov 07, 2020
My father writes through clothes.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an elementary school teacher. They were the children of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from England and Lithuania in the late 1800s.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was this huge, influential intellectual in the '60s and '70s. He was one of the main players in the cultural discussion in Sweden, the editor of papers.
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- Nov 07, 2020