- Life
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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
- Housewife
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say 'housewife'? A home engineer.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought my father was biggest, tallest, smartest, handsomest man in the world, so if he was telling me something, I was taking it really seriously.
- Francisco
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She has a West Virginian accent. My father was born in China, but he's the son of an American citizen. My paternal grandfather was born in San Francisco in 1867.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a horror movie fan; I'm an avid fan and have been since I was five years old. My father and I watched horror movies, so this is a genre that is very close and very important to me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up watching Sean Young films with my father; we've always been huge fans of hers. A surprising fact is that she loves to work on comedies, which was great for me to hear, because then I could ask her a million questions about 'Fatal Instinct,' which was a VHS I wore out from the video store.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020