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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
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember sitting there on my father's couch or my mother's couch, listening to this lecture about how there were two groups and we had to be separated. We've come a long way from this kind of open racism. And I think it's wonderful.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew early I wanted to follow my father into the military. He did a full 30-year career and retired as a full colonel in the Marines after graduating from Allentown H.S. and later from Cornell University.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a semi-attached row house in Queens in New York. And my family and my grandparents and my father's from Brooklyn, and so you're essentially an outer boroughs kid, you're growing up.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.
- Nov 07, 2020
I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in his lifetime then a black man of my father's generation. I was born after the Voting Rights Act, after the Civil Rights Act, after the Fair Housing Act.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one ever had a better father than I did. Father was a disciplinarian, and Mother was a very loving woman who taught us out of the scriptures. The Book of Mormon was her favorite.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
God and His Son are glorified personages. God the Father is our living Creator, and His Son, Jesus Christ, is our Savior and Redeemer. We have been created in God's image.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the Only Begotten Son of the Father in the flesh, Jesus inherited divine attributes. He was the only person ever born into mortality who could perform this most significant and supernal act.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cisco projects that in 2020, now just five years away, there will be seven billion people on the earth and 50 billion devices connected to the Internet. Six-and-a-half devices on average per person. As a father of five young adults and teenagers, I think we are - in my household, we've exceeded the 6.5 number.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom and dad are second-generation Greek-Americans who instilled in our middle-class family the values of hard work, self-reliance, and service, exemplified by my father's tenure as a U.S. Marine who was stationed at Camp David under President Truman.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020