- Mother
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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A father who sees his daughter leave in the arms of another man does not feel the same as a mother. It is heartrending for her, too. But it is not the same.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting influence must have been from her - yes, put it down to my mother.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of my shyness and non-athleticism came because I didn't have a father to instill those in me.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a black, working-class man who arrived here with no money in his pocket from Nigeria; my mum came from more of a middle-class background, whose father had prosecuted the Nazis at Nuremberg.
- Nov 07, 2020
My father married once. I married once. This is a conviction of ours. This is the way we grew up.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was baptized Methodist, but I was mainly raised First Church of NFL, which is to say that my family, especially my father, was much more concerned with watching football on Sundays than attending services.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020