- 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
- Dissect
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I've played a lot of failures, which is a Huston quality, I guess. I love losers, though, and have never met anyone who hasn't been one sometime. I'm always looking to understand them, and my father had an extremely keen eye to be able to dissect and bring that forward in the way he told his stories.
- Film Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.
- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a journalist.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father took me to my first game in 1971, and I fell in love with the Redskins and the NFL right then. I was hooked. And we didn't even win that game.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was thinking of my father's family. I can find their graves, but not that much about them. They didn't do anything notable enough to be in the records of newspapers.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom's a lawyer. She was part of the group that wrote the bar exam. My father is a dentist. They've always worked.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was in the paper recycling business back before they called it recycling.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't always know exactly what we're doing as parents. Children don't come with instruction manuals, as the saying goes. So it's important to me that I always question the choices I'm making as a father, to really stay alert and open to the balance between being too hard or too soft.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020