- 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
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father gave me Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' when I was in junior high; my junior high, angst-filled soul responded to that.
- Good-Natured
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Babe Ruth didn't become her father until 18 months after he married her mother, Claire, on April 17, 1929, Opening Day of the baseball season. Julia was 12 years old.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father realized he was going blind, he took up golf.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York football Giants.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and sturgeon and for my mother to object when the 1 P.M. Giants game began.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.
- I Was Raised
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband has a cousin who discovered, in his fifties, that the man he thought was his father was actually not, and that he had not only a father he had never met, but brothers.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised in Rogers Park in Chicago. My father sold furniture, and my mother was a Chicago public school teacher and proud member of the Chicago Teachers Union for decades.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020