- He
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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
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father lost a lung in a chemical accident at General Motors, and after a while, he got a settlement that sort of changed all of our lives and moved us from, what we say, 'ashy to classy' in some aspects.
- Kids
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course there's some things that I would have liked to have... none of my friends growing up had their father in the house. None of 'em. We had uncles and stuff like that, but nobody had a father in the house, none of my friends.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was the nurturing one, the one who always made sure my sister and I ate properly and that our hair was brushed... He really took care of the logistics of our upbringing.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother - who's from Iowa - owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father's a developer. And my musical influences, I think, came from my father's side of the family.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, Mr Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father!
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I told my extremely conservative, uber-traditional Korean father, 'Hey, Dad, I know what I want to do for the rest of my life. I want to be an actor.'
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, Philip Fisher, was the toughest guy I ever knew. An example: He had terrible teeth, yet he got his fillings done without ever using a painkiller. Now, that's tough!
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was born in the year 1900 in South Carolina, and he grew up at a time where being an African-American child in the American South was to be deprived of access to anything close to a reasonable education. He only had three years of formal education, but he was self-taught. He read two newspapers a day.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, to me, was 10 feet tall.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.
- Nov 07, 2020
My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020