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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
I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird recollecting on my childhood, I think, because my brothers are all white. We all share the same father but different mothers. I guess I kind of associated white, but I was occasionally reminded in a really negative way that I wasn't.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was skint, and I had to move back to my mum and dad's house, back into the room I shared with my brother when I was a kid. I kept getting people on the streets telling me that they loved me; it didn't mean anything to me because I was still borrowing tenners off my pensioner father to go and get some chicken.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my town, I had only one adult American male role model: my father. I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.
- Nov 07, 2020
My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies.
- Nov 07, 2020
Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father runs a restaurant business in Delhi, so if I had chosen to sell kebabs, it would be far easier for me than for anybody else.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The activity of being a husband, a father - those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that's what's most important.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was pulled out of Omaha when I was younger because my father started to work, when he was done serving as county commissioner, at Archer Daniels Midland.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father told me, never have partners.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had worked on the markets with my father before going to university, so I possessed an apparent street-smartness, had access to a colourful costermonger vocabulary, and tried passing myself off as a bit of spiv. But my contemporaries saw through me. At heart, they knew I was as bookish and oversensitive as they were.
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- Nov 07, 2020