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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
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the nicest things about receiving the accolade of Australia is that, previously, the knighthood was historically for what was termed 'the establishment.' Now, this is an accolade for somebody who comes from a working-class background. Someone whose father was a truck driver and decided to buy a truck.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is the CEO, and there's no question he is my boss. But we work very much in tandem.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are well-positioned to continue my father's legacy and move these businesses forward in the future.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We want to create more jobs. We want to qualify more lenders and expand lending markets. But also, I want a very different SBA - it's not your father's SBA. I want to modernize it and reposition it so when people think about jobs, they think about how the Small Business Administration would really be helpful.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was the artistic one. At a very young age, my father realised I had a strong voice and made me learn Hindustani vocal. I was five. I have Dad to thank for introducing me to the finer things in life.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a family of professionals, especially doctors. Thanks to my father, I got exposed to a whole lot of things. I call him a Renaissance man.
- Early
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father ran a famous L.A. nightclub complete with roller-rink - Flippers - in the early Eighties which was the West Coast's answer to Studio 54.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a doctor, and I admired him and got along well with him. He took me with him on house calls. We were living in Flushing, which was then a sleepy village of 25,000 - before the subway got there. I've been sure I wanted to be a doctor since I was about 12.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family of eight on public assistance, my parents were separated. My mother struggled, my father struggled.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020