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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He's an interior designer and he's really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California, and yes, he was the Terminator! He is also a former Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia, two titles he earned as a champion bodybuilder.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Frances' is a longtime family name on my dad's side. My grandfather, father, brother, and my daughter's name is Frances.
- Nov 07, 2020
You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father - he was an orthodontist - was supposed to sell his practice and move down to Florida, but that never happened... I would sometimes spend the summer with him and visit him, but he never lived with us.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The village where my father lives is, like, 300 people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.
- Nov 07, 2020
My father is gay.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved movies and watched a lot of them. But my father insisted that I get a good education before I joined the film industry.
- Nov 07, 2020