- Money
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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
That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up by my father to think that the best thing in life was to be charming, to have a nice smile, always to be liked.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a Christmas movie where I played Mrs. Claus because my children's favorite movie of all time was a Christmas movie that my father did in which he played Santa, and I was like, 'How often do they make a movie about Mrs. Claus?' and, 'My kids will love this.'
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in a small town. My parents, my father was a teacher. My mother was a housewife.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
For something to be useful to the spirit is not very valuable to get your covered wagon across the desert. We have adopted that attitude so thoroughly that any American father whose son tells him he wants to write poetry will be embarrassed.
- Engineer
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.
- Nov 07, 2020
The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are psychologists. My father is a specialist with schizophrenia and my mother works with mostly children.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years. I still do sometimes.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families.
- Country Club
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- Nov 07, 2020
My one complaint with my father as a parent is that, not only was he not a golfer, but also he was sort of opposed to golf. I was a country club kid growing up. I should have played golf, but my father thought golf was a sport for old men.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with a very privileged background. My father served as one of the cabinet ministers in Arroyo's government, and he's been a congressman for many years, and he's running again.
- Hospital
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- Nov 07, 2020