- Mother
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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
- Prepare
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- Nov 07, 2020
The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I stayed in a child's place. My father was murdered when I was 20. I was a model and never had a real job and my parents took care of me.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I thought LisaRaye sounded so country, but I've come to really appreciate my family-given name. I was named after my father, David Ray McCoy, and I'm totally a daddy's girl.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother was overly sensitive; my father, ascetic. I was neither. I felt as if I were living with complete strangers. I suspect that my parents felt the same way.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't be like my mother when my father had a heart attack. My mother had never handled the finances. I don't ever want to see anybody go through that. Women shouldn't be in that position.
- February
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was born on February 8, 1944, in Lucknow, India. Her father, Albert, was half-Indian and half-Portuguese.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the oldest of three girls and the only one not named after one of my father's ex-girlfriends.
- Entrepreneur
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is an artist, my father an entrepreneur.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see my husband and the way he is with his daughters, responsive and alive and sensitive in ways my father would have liked to be. My father would have loved to be a man like that, and he surrounded himself with men like that, but he couldn't be.
- Bowls
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- Nov 07, 2020
Three months before he died, I began to steal things from my father's house. I wandered around barefoot and slipped objects into my pockets. I took blush, toothpaste, two chipped finger bowls in celadon blue, a bottle of nail polish, a pair of worn patent-leather ballet slippers, and four faded white pillowcases the color of old teeth.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until I was two, my mother supplemented her welfare payments by cleaning houses and waitressing. My father didn't help.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, if I felt badly about myself, I could slyly pull out that I have this famous father.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020