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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, 'Why don't you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?' They never said that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom cooked for us, and on the weekend, we always had Sunday dinner. My father liked to bake.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like clothes. I like fashion, particularly men's fashion. Both my father and my grandmother on my mother's side were tailors, so I think it's in my blood.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I said on numerous occasions how I feel about my father. I love him with all my heart.
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- Nov 07, 2020
On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.
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- Nov 07, 2020