- 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
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never considered the clothing business in college. But my father was a manufacturer of men's wear in the Northeast and wanted to investigate manufacturing in Asia. In 1972 he sent me to Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong for four months. I'm convinced it was his way of getting me into business, rather than letting me be a hippie.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to get so upset with my father. I'd ask him, 'Why do I have to be around all these women all the time?' But in time, I learned that was an advantage.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am never going to be able to rest easy in having established a posthumous connection to my father. I'll always be groping for what I can't have.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
For 20 years, my mother, my sister and I had seldom spoken of my father. If he happened to come up in conversation, pain and embarrassment entered the room and stayed until he disappeared back into the silence with which we all felt more at ease.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurious to both of us. To me, as tending to produce in my mind a feeling of self-elevation; and to my brother, by creating in him a dislike both towards my father and me.
- Nov 07, 2020
Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020