- Heavenly Father
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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
My father raised me from the time I was 12 years old. And it would never occur to me that I wouldn't be strong - I wasn't raised like that.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents have influenced my fashion choices. I inherited many of their older garments, and I like their style. I love my mother's elegant and dramatic couture dresses and the feeling for colour my father has.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
People assume that because I was brought up on Rolling Stones tours, and my father is who he is, I'm some kind of rock-and-roll bad girl.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or grandparents.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father filmed me all the time as a kid, and that's how I was first exposed to a camera.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a Republican and my mother was a Democrat. In Michigan, we always fought about sports, not politics.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use the lessons my father taught me every day. And I believe the simple value of integrity matters, even in a complicated place like Congress.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my father is, like, first generation Albanian, and his parents lived in Southey and grew up in downtown Boston. My parents are complete opposites.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two different ways of writing a novel. The first I call the traditional father way, when the novelist slightly situates himself or herself above the text and knows what each and every character is going to do. It's a bit like engineering. I've never felt close to that tradition. I like the second way, which relies a bit more on intuition.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 15, I got super into Eric Clapton. My father took notice of this and got me a guitar for Christmas.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020