- Impossible
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't get me wrong, growing up in Edinburgh, I was all too familiar with the Hibs and Hearts rivalry. My father grew up in Leith - Hibee territory - just off of Easter Road on Albert Street.
- Image
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband is a good father, concerned about his children.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, 'I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.' We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it's a heartbreak-related stress, I like to listen to Lauryn Hill's 'Forgive Them Father' the most, especially the harmonies.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is Afro-Caribbean and my father is Caucasian-American, and I was born in Pennsylvania and moved to the Cayman Islands when I was about 2. So I grew up there with my mother, and it's really all I know. I grew up there until it was time to go to college, and that's when I moved back to America.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was able to get out of Germany because her father was Russian and those with a Russian passport could leave. My father was not so fortunate. He had to be smuggled out of Germany by being tied to the bow of a vegetable freighter that was leaving in the North Sea. He almost lost a leg because it was so cold, but he ended up in France.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020