- Me
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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
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My team members are Hector Soto, who is a boxing promoter and Vice-president of Miguel Cotto Promotions. He runs all my business. He was the person that my father left in charge of it all. Bryan Perez is my right-hand man.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was drawn to it much to my father's dismay. He wanted me to be a pianist like he was, but I had coarser tastes - like that old joke: What do you call a guy who hangs around with musicians? A drummer.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was not a political animal.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything but mush for breakfast.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being compared to the best driver in F1 history is the goal you want to achieve, and to have that as my idol and father is very special.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, you have a father who's always around, and then the next day, he's gone. I was too young to comprehend that. I actually thought he was going to come back.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father always said that Brazil is the place to 'make America,' and by 'make America' he meant the place to grow - to prosper.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before even getting to David Cameron's father here's a starting-point question about the Panama Papers: how is the desire to break the anonymity of Panama banking secrecy different from the FBI's interest in breaking Apple's encryption of the iPhone?
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020