- Business
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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
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gotta be the only father begging his son to leave a six-figure job to go play in a rock n' roll band!
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's an early aviator, and my first flight was with him at age two. Now, despite the fact that I got sick on the flight, I still enjoyed it, I believe.
- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, my wife is a wonderful cook. She comes from a food-loving Italian family - her father owned a pizzeria!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who I am as a father is far more important to me than the public perception.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shave every day with an ancient manual razor. It was my father's, and I love it.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
- Argument
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.
- Nov 07, 2020
My father's a character.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020