- Riding
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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 thought my dad was out of work, because my friends had fathers with briefcases who'd go off somewhere with bow ties on. But my father would finish breakfast and go back to his room.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.
- Commitment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Father's commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our lives, but He also brightens our summers.
- Praise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when it was first being built. But I couldn't find anything for me. There seemed to be despair at the possibility of the built environment possessing any imagination in the real world.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will begin first to search out this right by that magna charta, that great and faithful charter which was made to Abraham, the father of the faithful, in the name of all his seed.
- Nov 07, 2020
Especially when you've become the father of two daughters, you hope the world can be a more gentle place.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The benefit a father can confer on his son is to make him fit to occupy the front rank in the assembly of the learned.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was 18 when I was born. She split with my father when I was 6, and married another man when I was about 7. My mother was about 25, my stepfather was about 26, I'm six or seven, I was looking at them and I knew they were just too young.
- Class Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intelligence, he always thought that I was a little bit lazy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020