- Goofing
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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
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is an actor as well, so I used to look to him.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never met a feminist who didn't have a father.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives.
- Franklin Roosevelt
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's political heroes were Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father built a small manufacturing business. I worked alongside him and saw firsthand the challenges that business owners face.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.
- Nov 07, 2020
Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
- Difficulty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to escape the destruction of my father's bankruptcy and all that difficulty.
- Chamberlain
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have to be Wilt Chamberlain to get into the Basketball Hall of Fame. If you don't have a sweet turnaround jumper from 18 feet, the best route to the Hall is fatherhood. Daniel Biasone, aka the 'father of the 24-second clock,' made the cut.
- Epidemic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became a hand-me-down to me.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020