- 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
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I bought a house in England in 1990, shortly after my father died, hoping to come home to England and spend time with my family.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be affirmatively proud of what I have made my way through. And to do that, in the same way I had to tell my father and my family and my friends that I was gay, I need to not hide this anymore.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's in the military, so we moved a lot. I was born in Jersey but grew up in Maryland until we moved to L.A. to pursue my acting career. Music came into it after that.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.
- Comfortable
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is not that comfortable with children, but he's a terrific father for an adult.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father has always enjoyed games... always with a combination of the fun and social side of it, but also always highly competitive.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lost my father four years ago to what was the culmination of a manic episode that seemingly, to my family, came completely out of the blue after 59 years on this earth with no issues that we knew about, at least - sort of a normal run-of-the-mill guy who did his job and came home and had a family.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is a challenging place in terms of wars and peace, basic human rights and freedoms. The Holy Father has a major role to play in global affairs. The pope is more than a spiritual leader. For the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, he is an inspiration of holiness and goodness and, above all, the faithful proclamation of the Gospel.
- Amplifier
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- Nov 07, 2020
I bought a Hofner guitar and amplifier for 32 guineas, then spent ages trying to make a bottleneck. At that point, I was meant to be developing my father's ice-cream cafe into a global concern, but I spent all my time in the stockroom playing slide guitar.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing was ever clean enough for my father. You could never clean as good as he could; you could never clean as fast and as thorough as he could.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father used to control the wholesale of many ice-cream items in Middlesbrough. He was central distributor for most of the region.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020