- Me
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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
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
We grew up in a middle-class family in Chicago. Even when we went on vacation as a family, it wasn't a really fun time, because my father didn't want to spend any money when we got there.
- Immigrant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in an immigrant household with an Italian father who came to the U.S. when he was 15.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact, my mother's been married twice, and both men were Uruguayan. So I grew up in a very European/Latin American-influenced home.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was brought up in a theatrical background, just as I was, and his father instilled in him the need to do everything properly and take responsibility for money.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a genius footballer, a natural, two-footed centre-forward who had played for Arsenal juniors, but he was sent out to work aged 14 and so lived out his life in a frustrated, rageful way.
- Overcome
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.
- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and father raised their eyebrows at first when I said I wanted to be an actor because I was in this industrial city. My dad had done a bit of boxing on the side, but he was a welder first and foremost. I was 17, and I said, 'I want to be an actor.' They worried it was a waste of time.
- Nov 07, 2020
I knew your father before you did, and I don't think he'd be too proud of what you're doing right now.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.
- Do Your Best
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- Nov 07, 2020