- 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
- Computational
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth than anyone I know.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family members are firefighters.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down the lyrics of all of my favourite songs, and sing along. I was always singing in my bedroom with a hairbrush.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father joined the NAACP when he was 12, in the '50s. He was part of the organizing efforts that led to some of the first sit-ins in North Carolina.
- Fast
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is from North Carolina, and he got rid of his drawl really fast. He's very much about speaking correctly, enunciating in certain ways.
- Better Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I called up and said, 'Dad, I won a MacArthur.' My father goes: 'I always thought your sister would win that,' and I said, 'Dad, just say congratulations and keep your private thoughts private.' At that point he laughed, then burst into tears, and it was obvious that he was so happy and proud.
- Hospital
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of intestinal operations, and was in the hospital for nearly a year. So the four of us teenagers lived by ourselves in the apartment without a guardian.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020