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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
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My father was a physicist, while I am a biogeochemist. I live to study plants, and he has never had more than a generic interest in biology.
- Laboratory
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I grew up in my father's laboratory and played beneath the chemical benches until I was tall enough to play on them.
- Girl
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My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.
- Me
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My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.
- Rain
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My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.
- Regret
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As a son and as a father, there are still various things that I haven't done as well as I should have - that's my dilemma and regret.
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I grew up without a father.
- Mother
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All my mother ever wanted to talk about was what she hated about my father and the times he cheated on her when he was younger. It really irritated me, and I told them they had to sort things out between themselves. Looking back on that, I see that it was really cold of me as a son.
- Me
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In 2006, I published my first novel, 'In the Country of Men.' The publication of the book gave me a bigger platform to speak about my father's abduction and Libya's human-rights record.
- Me
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In the same way that Egypt and Libya conspired to 'disappear' my father and silence writers such as Idris Ali, they made me, too, to a far lesser extent, feel punished for speaking out.
- Need
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We need a father to rage against.
- Good
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I am a good father in real life, that's why I'm able to play a good father on screen so convincingly.
- Health
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My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.
- Cancer
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.
- He
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