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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
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lost my father very young, but not young enough to not be aware of what was going on. My father and I had an amazing relationship. We were very close.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father passed away, my mom didn't really know what to do and how to deal with it for me, so she put me in extracurricular classes, one of them being theater.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father came from a chawl and became a top star in Bollywood and worked very hard for us. When I look at my dad, I feel very good that my papa did so much.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in no way ready when my daughter was born. But I want to be a good father to her.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nan Gorman was born in Memphis, Tenn., on St. Patrick's Day. She moved to Hazard in 1929 when her father, James Hagan, a recent medical school graduate and aspiring surgeon, went to work there.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My very first memory of being alive is being tossed in the air by my father and laughing and knowing, really knowing, that his was absolute joy.
- Principal
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.
- Engineer
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in first grade. But she couldn't afford the payments. I think it must have hurt her a lot, not to be able to give me a Catholic education.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
For centuries my father's family lived on Britain's biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade with the interior, and through the Port of Bristol with America.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and father just taught me the basics: to be really kind, to really listen to people. I have never been one to put on airs and graces.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020