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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do recognize the most valuable work being done across the country is that work being done inside the four walls in our homes. And let us not forget how important the work of the mother and father are to raising responsible citizens.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw my father deal with every headache the government threw his way - whether it had to do with the signs on the front of the building or the prices on the showroom floor. He knew he could do better, if government would just get out of the way - and stay out of the way. He was right.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was proud that people thought I was a good actress. I'm the only child. And daddy's girl.
- Car Accident
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Kingston, Jamaica, as the youngest of four children and the only girl. My father died when I was only a year and a half. He was killed in a car accident when he was 26.
- Nov 07, 2020
My father used to say, 'Well, Ann, maybe the best thing you'll ever do, you haven't even thought of yet.'
- Insurance
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, John, ran the Dowd Insurance Co. in town, which was started by his great-grandfather. My mother, Dolores, was a homemaker who kept an eye on all of us.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both my mother's family and my father's family go back almost a hundred years in the district. I was born in the district, raised in the district, raised my family in the district. And so that's the way I see myself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, John Marcellus Huston, was a director renowned for his adventurous style and audacious nature.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read James Joyce's short story 'The Dead,' and I love that movie for many reasons. It was the last film I made with my father, and it's emotional for me as well as a movie I'm proud of.
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- Nov 07, 2020