- Me
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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
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Passing on a full scholarship to MIT would be irrational for me, but to my father and his parents, what would have been the point of spending five years at one of the world's most prestigious universities if he just ended up back on the farm?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanks to the wonderful support system provided by my father, I was never insecure about my future.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt cheated because a lot of people wanted a relationship with my father, and they played me.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
After clearing the land, planting the orchard, building the house and barn, and surviving the Great Depression, our father died suddenly one winter night when we were small, leaving us to learn about loss before we even knew its name.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020