- Loved
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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
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I bought all the books, but I probably knew on the first day that law school wasn't for me. I didn't give up until about ten days. I don't think I really told my father. I really didn't like my father knowing my things were not successful.
- Nov 07, 2020
Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description.
- Easter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.
- Nov 07, 2020
Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I wake up before dawn, and I love sitting up in the middle of the bed with all the lights off, pitch-black dark, and talking to the Father, with no interruptions and nothing that reminds me that there's anything in life but me and Him.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.
- Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music. Jarvis and I met on a benefit for an extraordinary man called LaMonte Young, the father of minimalism, who worked with John Cale and shared a loft with Yoko Ono.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe it was the home tutoring, or the late start to formal schooling, or an overly cautious and protective upbringing, but in any case, I never became a talkative person. As an adult, I am not always comfortable in social gatherings with small talk. I must have inherited my father's gentle nature.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel H. Mudd, he told a friend he wanted to work for an altruistic business. Already a decorated marine and a successful executive, he wanted to be a role model to his four children - just as his father, the television journalist Roger Mudd, had been to him.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was absolutely no good.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020