- Family
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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
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father worked for Bell Labs. Hence, I knew very much about the place. I knew it because also he was involved with telephony.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was Catholic, my mom Baptist, so we were raised Baptist but had a lot of Catholic upbringing: fish on Fridays, no birth control.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a Father's Day every day.
- Boarding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was taken to a boarding school when I was four years old and taken away from my mother and my father, my grandparents, who I stayed with most of the time, and just abruptly taken away and then put into the boarding school, 300 miles away from our home.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father made bridal dresses, which he sold wholesale, and always wanted me to join him. He looked upon what I did as precarious and frivolous - except that he loved it when my name was in the papers.
- But Not Without
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- Nov 07, 2020
I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm lucky that it's about fashion and perfume and cosmetics. If my father had owned a tire company, I don't know what I would have done.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020