- 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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm Latino, progressive, and I have deep roots in the working class - my father was a bracero, a guest farmworker and cook, and my mom worked as a nursing home laundry attendant.
- Drafting
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father worked in Chrysler's drafting department and used to bring home tracing paper, No. 2 pencils, and masking tape from the office. With these, I used to trace off drawings from the 'Superman' and 'Batman' comics and put them up on my bedroom walls.
- Maniac
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an absolute maniac, a terrible husband and father.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father went back into the military in 1947 and was gone for 3-1/2 years, my mother was 24 years old with four kids in a town she didn't know that well with no military services available, no family services available through the military, and that was the norm.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father served 26 years in the Air Force as a pilot and a pioneer in our missile programs. I learned early about the sacrifices a family makes when a member is repeatedly deployed, and also the fulfillment that comes from serving our country. My brother, my son and I all became Marines.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and father both died at 64.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was the captain of a cargo ship. When I was about two years old, we used to sail with him. The crew of his ship would dress me up in fancy dress and make me dance for them. I was a performing monkey!
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met Roy's father once... And I think that Roy's relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day, he's trying to prove himself to a father he'll never really please.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father. I think I was only 8 when I read Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'
- Despises
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- Nov 07, 2020