- Stones
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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
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph.
- First One
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gone from, you know, being too close to politicians, to being too close to entertainers, and people's father that I'm not.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who was tempted to draw comparisons between my father's 'Dave Robicheaux' series and my first book quickly gave up.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home.
- George W. Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we have George W. Bush as president, we're going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
- Honorable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I respect my father as a father, but I also respect him as an honorable chairman.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really like the story of Bardock, Goku's father. It's quite dramatic and the kind of story I absolutely wouldn't draw if it were me. It was like watching a different kind of 'Dragon Ball' in a good way, so I thought it was nice.
- Nov 07, 2020
My father used to see God in human beings and in his work. Each person has his own way.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't consult anyone - not my mother, not my father, anyone - about my work. And I must add that neither Dad nor Mom interfere in my work.
- Support
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- Nov 07, 2020
I joined Khalsa College just opposite Don Bosco in class XI, but soon I quit studies and was sent to Bangkok by my father to learn martial arts, as that is the only place we could afford given that I would also work there to support my training.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020