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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to be an actor. My father inspired me since I was three years old.
- Him
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do discuss things with him, but as a father, not a friend.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I saw how the industry's sweet-talkers operate. For years, they tried to make my father feel like he was the best actor in the whole world. My father never took them seriously. I, too, imbibed that trait from him.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had all these great names for our cows. Bossy and Daisy and Petunia and Turnip. One of my jobs was to round up the cows before milking. I'd go out back with the dog and bring them in.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coach Spurrier, without question, has been the biggest influence to me, next to my father.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn't real healthy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.
- Columbus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I've had a job since I worked for my father's construction company.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
- Nov 07, 2020
All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.
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- Nov 07, 2020