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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
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father used to say, 'What the hell are you listening to? Put that bloody rubbish off.' And it was The Beatles.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, Arthur, was a fishmonger, first at Billingsgate market and later in Camden Town and Golders Green.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was actually very fortunate. I think I was actually the only kid in my class at one stage that actually had a father in the home.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Asian-Americans, the charge that is often lobbed against us is sort of the least original: the idea that somehow we're perpetual foreigners, that we can't be trusted, and that even my father, who was patriotic to the point that it was kind of a joke among his children, would be accused of being disloyal to America.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.
- Guns
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is a retired FBI agent. I have guns in my house. I'm not against the Second Amendment.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father resented that I was paid so much more than he was.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all kinds.
- Blown Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was blown away by the dinosaurs.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work of historical fiction.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barry Bonds was still young when his father's fall began. Although Bobby still continued to put up good numbers year after year, he never lived up to expectations.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020