- Mother
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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
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had slowed down playing a little... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put his guitar down, I pick it up.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. When the first energy crisis came in the early 1970s, the business suffered.
- Mother And Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess it kind of stemmed from my father. He was a union guy working for the meat plant down in Kansas City. He was a union guy, and I guess it was just in my blood.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a very big musical influence on me. He was a trumpet player. And that's what I started with. Then, when I was 7, my parents introduced me to the piano.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.
- Talent
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not that my father didn't love me, it's just that he wasn't capable of consistently being there. His mood swings were gigantic.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is a despicable man.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated.
- Heavenly Father
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- Nov 07, 2020