- Early Years
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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
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was about 15, 16 years old when my father first ran for mayor, and that's where I cut my teeth.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an undergrad, I studied engineering physics at the University of Oklahoma, and all my degrees are from engineering departments. My father wanted me to join him in the oil-field business in Oklahoma, but I wanted to be a scientist.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade them to come in with him, and that hunch proved to be right.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.
- Disapproval
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, finally saddle horses. I grew up around, on, and under horses, fed them, shoveled their manure, emptied the mangers of corncobs.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shot the video for 'Broken' where both my parents grew up. There was always a strong sense of serving our country in the neighborhood - my father and all my uncles served, and most of them enlisted.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was bullied about everything, from the way I looked to the fact that my father had been a dancer.
- Drink
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons I survived as well as I did was my genetics. My mother and father both had very tough lives, and boy, were they survivors.
- Worshipped
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- Nov 07, 2020