- I Was Born
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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 Aug 01, 2026
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about science and ran a grocery store in the neighborhood with my mother's help.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father and my mother were professional footballers and have also been coaches.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, I wish I could be a part of all the remakes of my father's films. But on second thought, I wouldn't want to be a part of any. The thought of being compared to him is unnerving. I'd rather do my films than live in the fear of living up to his standards.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am incredibly proud to be my father's daughter. There's no getting around that, and I'm not sure I'd ever want to.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and it wasn't super-strict, but it was a loving, warm household.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's parts of it that I connect to - being a father and everything - but 'Mamma Mia!' allows me to go out there and be me and have fun. I've never really had the chance to do that with so much freedom.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020