- Conversation
- |
- 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
- Mother
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We had a Jewish school; we had a Jewish club. My father was a main donor. My mother was on the committee of the school.
- Parents
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen the best and worst of times. My parents were divorced when I was a child. I was brought up by my father.
- Man
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.
- Prison
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea Prison for bad debt, but it was obviously a huge part of him.
- Mother
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a little girl, my father, who was a high-ranking officer, pilot, and an avionics specialist in the United States military, would hoist me up onto the elevator - the flight control surface located at the tail of his airplane. From up there I could get a glimpse of the world as he saw it.
- Man
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
- Nov 07, 2020
From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.
- Pictures
- |
- Nov 07, 2020