- Relationship
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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
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a decision as a five-year-old boy that my kids will know who their father is.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be a professional. I want to be like my TV father, Bill Smitrovich. He's an easy, calm actor. I don't want to freak out.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born into a middle class family in New Jersey. My dad came home from serving in the Army after having lost his father, worked in the Breyers ice cream plant in Newark, New Jersey. Was the first person to graduate from college.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants - wanted to be as 'American' as possible, I was always aware of it. How could I not be?
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got Peter Pan syndrome. It's not that I refuse to grow up - I love building businesses; I want to be a good husband, a good father. But I don't want to be boring. I don't want to be normal.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an evolving relationship with my father, and his memory, especially the older I get. I know that some of the things that interested him are things that interest me.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always liked the idea of being a father. And I've always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.
- Bribe
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father didn't want to ski alone, so he took me up to the mountains in order to basically bribe my mom to come with him.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I looked more like my mother, but I think I look like my father. I wish I had one of those naturally beautiful faces. Or a more quirky face. I'm right down the middle: not interesting enough, not pretty enough.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020