- I Am
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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
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my pre-college years, I went on many trips with my father into the oil fields to visit their operations. On Saturday mornings, I often went with him to visit the company shop. I puttered around the machine, electronics, and automobile shops while he carried on his business.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fighter, father, husband - it's all the same person. I know the UFC stereotype is that we're all thugs. But I'd like people to know that I don't have to switch one off to try to be another. Being a father and a fighter, it's who I am.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's Maori, and my father's Australian. I take my strength from both my ancestors, and I'm really privileged.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a low-budget monster movie maker, so he made classics like 'The Crater Lake Monster.' There were always creatures around. And my dad was a huge fan of Ray Harryhausen. One of our neighbors, who went on to win several Academy Awards, was close friends with my dad. His name is Phil Tippett.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
- Housewife
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he didn't have to enlist. My mother was a housewife. She worked in a bank before marrying my father.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought of my father when I was growing up. Truly. He was a strong, silent man who worked hard to support his family.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had barely any education. He could hardly write or count. But his great pride was that he was perfectly bilingual. In the household, he entertained this idea that we had to speak both languages.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a class clown. My father was a class clown. My son has been a class clown, and it sort of ran in the family.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television;' it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saud bin Abd al-Aziz was the moon-faced, shortsighted, bespectacled son of the old founder of Saudi Arabia, who'd always been his father's protege but had never quite lived up to everything that his father had.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020