- 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
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father was assassinated, I decided that I would not compete with his memory, but the priority would be to achieve his dream.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very fond of an old map of London that used to belong to my father. I'm a big London fan, and the evolution of the city is astonishing, when you look back to Pepys and how small it was - everyone knew each other.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only reprobates father children and then abandon them.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a great pic of my father and Rev. Graham laughing hysterically at some joke with George Pratt Shultz looking on back in 1972 or so.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.
- Clowning
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was always clowning around. It was a huge influence on me. In my family, everything is turned into a joke.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My enthusiasm for L.A. stems from my father, who was a lecturer in American literature at the University of Birmingham. Through his work, our family did several house swaps with L.A. families. It was a dreadfully daring thing to do in the early 1980s; there was no Internet, so you had no idea of what you were getting into.
- Nov 07, 2020
Father John Misty imagines that he is a rebel. He is, but he does not realize what he is rebelling against.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
Father John Misty is rebelling not against repression or foolishness but the ephemeral nature of mankind. He seeks permanence in a fleeting age, and he does not find it because the one place he could find an answer, he considers closed off: a locked door.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020