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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
- Nov 07, 2020
My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father died, the money he left us would have dried up within a year were it not for my mother... We might very well have ended up on welfare.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the end, I still have the same hope as my father - that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the last word.
- High Ground
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father really set the tone for us to be a more moral nation, to take a moral high ground in everything that we do.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called 'the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.' These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects.
- Better Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had to do it all over again, would I want my dad here? I would say no. Our world is in a better place because our father gave his life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.
- Nov 07, 2020
Father Time is whether you're an athlete or not an athlete. Father Time is always around. I think I'm just special.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd take me to business meetings, and I would listen to him talk with his workers and customers. We would also talk a lot about business over dinner.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Father was bold, and Mother was cautious. They never shouted at each other but argued constantly about strategy, and they taught me very early that before taking big risks, one must carefully figure the odds.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've heard my father say that the man is to be the priest, the provider, and the protector of his family. He's the priest because he is the spiritual leader, monitoring and growing the spiritual temperature of his family.
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- Nov 07, 2020