- 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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.
- Big Band
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mobile is a seaport town, and we ate a lot of seafood. We'd go fishing, we'd catch our fish and we'd eat our fish. It was a ritual on Saturday morning for all my family - my grandfather, my brothers, my uncles, my father - to go fishing, and then the ladies of the family would clean the fish and fry them up.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always admired my father because he was a man that never put on any airs, you know. And I always tried to be that kind of person.
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
- Edward
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- Nov 07, 2020
The life of Edward Estlin Cummings began with a childhood in Cambridge, Mass., that he described as happy, but he struggled in both his artistic and romantic exploits against the piousness of his father, an esteemed Harvard professor.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the Internet, on IMDB, they've got that my middle name as Archibald. I don't have a middle name! My father doesn't like middle names.
- Big Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
American history has always had elements of what we now think of as Trumpism - Joe McCarthy, George Wallace, Father Coughlin. It's not as if these things haven't always existed, and they were powerful. The big difference is Trump is president.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020