- 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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, whose interest in chemistry was rather minimal, nevertheless went to graduate school in the subject and married my father, for whom it was as important as life itself.
- Continental
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an entomologist who believed in continental drift. In the early '50s, that was regarded as nonsense. It was in the mid-'50s that it came back. Someone had thought of it 30 or 40 years earlier named Alfred Wegener, and he never got to see it come back.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is always with me. But moving forward and making my father more proud of me is very important. Taking care of my family, as my father did, is even more important.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never went into the mine. But I saw my father and other men coming out, day after day, their faces and bodies covered in soot. It looked very hard and dangerous.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brothers first brought me to boxing. I dedicate the fights to them and my father and fight for my family.
- Army
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father enlisted at the age of 17. He lied about his age because he wanted to ride the fastest motorbikes, which were with the British army.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father gave me a copy of 'Seven Years in Tibet,' and that's what turned me on to Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism.
- Hold
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lived in 11 states, but I'm not an Army brat. My father couldn't hold a job, so every six months, we'd move.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just write the characters the way I see them. And maybe that's because I'm surrounded by the most amazing men,from my father to my husband to all of my brothers. They are true heroes!
- Nov 07, 2020
No woman in Afghanistan is in business without support from either her husband or her father or her uncle, someone.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, once he has decided on something, doesn't care about what anyone else thinks. All the men in our family swore at him for training us. His parents said he was mad. But he didn't listen.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020