- Peace
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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
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.
- Honesty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our father has always been very passionate about taekwondo. In all honesty, we were forced into it without a choice. He would train us every other night at home, so we would always be perfecting our technique.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father has been out of office for 25 years and I've been working in the private sector. I've been raising a family and I've been working in the charitable sector as well.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had a great legacy and implemented important policies for Canada.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've travelled a lot across this country because of my father's job - I've had that experience.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a huge influence on me.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it.'
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father worked in high-energy nuclear physics, and my mother was a mycologist and a geneticist. After both parents completed postdoctoral fellowships in San Diego in 1962, my father took a faculty position in the Physics Department at Yale, and so the family moved to New Haven, Connecticut.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.
- Creative Ways
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young I would spend more money than I should with my credit card but my father cut it off, so I had to find creative ways of making money.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020