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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
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's house was on East 55th Street on 1st and 2nd Avenues. I'm fifth-generation Marino in the East 50s - I live on 57th Street. I can't be more East 50s.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an air conditioning engineer and we lived in a three-bedroom terraced house in Langley before moving to a four-bedroom house in Maidenhead, where my parents still live.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was eight, my parents saved up to send me to private school, but I found it so tough that I often escaped through the back fence to walk the four miles to my father's office in Windsor. I only lasted a few terms, but it didn't curb my ambition.
- Episcopal
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- Nov 07, 2020
My formative years were all shaped by a mother who was very sad and had a drinking problem, while my father was lonely and angry. He was an Episcopal priest and raised four kids on his own.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's whole life was work. He had a retail store in Ossining, New York, and I mean, he was down there at 6:15 every morning. The store didn't open until 9, but he hadda be down there. That's all he knew.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in.
- Nov 07, 2020
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you were shopping for a father, you'd have to take out a serious loan to afford mine. He's the best.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020