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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
- Daughter
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Hinde Esther Singer was born in Poland on March 31, 1881, the daughter of Bathsheva and Pinchos Mendel Singer. Bathsheva was an intellectual, but both Bathsheva's father and her husband disapproved of erudite women.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still waiting for Peter Jackson to let me play an elf. I want to play Orlando Bloom's father. No, Orlando Bloom's younger, hotter brother. I don't think it's going to happen.
- Mother
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The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.
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My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.
- Courage
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I think what I most admired about my father was his extraordinary courage. He had such energy to pursue whatever he wanted, and he really didn't care what others thought.
- Fire
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I think working with the primal elements of fire and earth appealed greatly to my father because of the almost magical results.
- Loved
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I loved being my father's audience and watching him in front of the mirror as he talked to himself made up like a clown.
- Lost
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My father had been an avid fan of Chaplin during the silent film days, but when the talkies came along, my father lost all interest in movies.
- Boring
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I think it's a pity for him that my father didn't have the pleasure of seeing me grow up. I think he missed out on something. But it doesn't matter. It's boring. I don't have any anger about it.
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I have tried to bring the family together. My father should have done it, and to some extent, I have succeeded.
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Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone.
- Job
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Relative to most people I know, I am comfortable just about anywhere. I went to 20 schools before the 8th grade because my father couldn't hold a job. We moved every six months. I had to adjust.
- Me
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I liked the idea of being from 'somewhere else.' I do think that's inherited. My father never had a fixed sense of where home was, and for my sister and me, it is much easier not to belong than to belong.
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Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington.
- Patriotism
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