- I Am
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am well aware that, if my endorsement is meaningful and helpful to Huckabee, it is because my father devoted so much of his life and ministry to cultural reform.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father spent all those years building his brand. I happen to be his namesake, and I also happen to be the president of the largest Christian university. I think I have a responsibility to be a good citizen. The least I can do is to lend my name and whatever influence I have to make a difference politically.
- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an agnostic.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job.
- Son
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no one who is more conflicted in the Marvel Universe, in my opinion, than Matthew Murdock. Is he his father's son, or is he the son of his father? Is he someone who is going to solve the world's problems in a court room, or is he someone who is going to solve the world's problems with his fist?
- Nov 07, 2020
My father died when I was quite small, so my uncle used to buy me books and read them to me.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a little frightening - a huge man, six foot four - and he looked like God. He was always a visitor, as far as I was concerned, because my parents separated when I was nine. We only became friends when he was old and began to shrink. During the war, he was a BBC war correspondent and did some extraordinary broadcasts.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my father's later years he asked several times that I remember him the way I knew him. He said that after his death, people would talk. They would say 'things' about him and he wouldn't be there to defend himself.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am my father's only child. The world knows a two-dimensional Cary Grant. As charming a star and as remarkable a gentleman as he was, he was still a more thoughtful and loving father.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be honest, I think I'd become a bit selfish with memories of my father. I wanted to hug them close to me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020