- Family
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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
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously Gwilym is a very Welsh name! My father is from Maesteg, and my mother's from Abergavenny.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to fulfil the unfinished agenda of my father, which was to solve the problems of farmers, daily wage workers, and downtrodden people, irrespective of their caste and religion.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father was the Prime Minister, was there any terrorist activity in this country? The entire country was calm at that time.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make more money in a week than my father made in a year.
- Financial
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- Nov 07, 2020
I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father - I have grown up with him being a respected actor, and I have taken a lot with me from home, like his way of always treating everybody the same, that everybody has equal value.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.
- Carry
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- Nov 07, 2020
One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was executive officer, which is second-in-command, on a ship called the Hull, one of three ordered into a typhoon by Admiral Halsey - an insane and sadistic decision.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020