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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process was remarkably cathartic. I'd sit and listen to my father's voice - having not heard some of these tapes for 30 years and hearing his voice laying me down for a nap, our giggles and cooking dinner - and I remembered all those wonderful days. Normal days.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.
- Egyptian
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories in the news about the exact same events. It makes you think, 'How is anybody able to understand or even have a dialogue when the basis of information is just so completely different?'
- Nov 07, 2020
Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was born in Cuba, so with him we spoke Spanish.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
My career did start in the Spanish language industry, and that's probably because my father is my manager. He pushed my career in the direction he knew best.
- Incredible
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was incredible on trumpet and played with the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is from Jamaica, my mother is from the U.K., but I was adopted as an infant by a really wonderful family in Alberta, Canada. What we refer to as 'Texas of the North.'
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Southern Oregon. My father was a sawmill worker and a logger, and his job put food on the table.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020