- 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 father always worked away, and died when I was 17, but I hated him by that point. It hit me later in life, but back then I was teenage and angry.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up mainly with my mother, and I would see my father from time to time. But I didn't have a constant male figure.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.
- Pretend
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I was to pretend my father didn't exist and I didn't have anything to remember him by, then it wouldn't be healthy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father tried to discourage me from going into comedy, mainly because he felt like it wasn't promising. It was pie in the sky.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents did the whole good-cop/bad-cop thing - Dad was the bad cop, and Mom was the good cop. I remember my father saying, 'I'm his father, not his friend.' That kind of stuck with me.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, a captain in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, landed in Normandy the day after D-Day.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disruption is in my genes. My father owned one of the first discount toy stores, Duane's Toyland, in Albany and Schenectady, near where I grew up. Discount was always a huge disruptor - it disrupted Sears Roebuck.
- Delivery
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2011, when my father passed away - I had my daughter first; I had her on January 24, and I had a seizure during the delivery. I lived through that, and five weeks later, my father died suddenly of a heart attack, and I lived through that. And then my daughter had surgery, and I lived through that.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is a very skilled carpenter. He can do just about anything with his hands. He is very artistic with his carpentry.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
My last name is Wellsley, but a lot of people say it's Lowendowski, which is my mother's last name, and I had it changed to my father's when I was 18.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing more important in my life than being a father. I will never allow any of my career choices or aspirations to threaten this bond.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020