- Getting
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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
Had I not been an actor, I would have been counting cash at my father's restaurant or supervising activities in the kitchen. I did it for a year when I was in college. I put on 10 kgs and then it hit me that I couldn't do that anymore.
- Lived
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- Nov 07, 2020
We lived above my father's launderette. Both my parents ran the launderette, but my father was also a factory supervisor, and my mum worked part-time in an accounts office.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother says I was two and a half when I first mentioned I wanted to be an actor. My father said, 'The word is pronounced 'Doctor!'
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm lucky to have football. My father was 16 when he worked in the mines. That's practically a child, going down the mines.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cohabited for 20 years with my longtime husband and father of my two now-teen daughters in a stable family household.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my father, who was Chinese, basically felt if we didn't major in science, we would starve on the streets, so we all went into science unquestioningly. I kind of faked my way through physics.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The paradox is, I can't miss the good things about my father while he is alive, but I will of course miss him... when he is dead.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realize that when I moved out of my father's house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father always defined my gender to my brothers. He'd say, 'This is your sister; you must take care of her.'
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a big reader, and my father was an editorial writer for a newspaper.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020