- Dad
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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
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't ever think of myself as coming from a particular class because my father was working class but made his living as a newspaper foreign correspondent - someone of no fixed abode, as he used to say - who was as comfortable dining with the Mountbattens in India as he was having a pint with the boys. He was very gregarious.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always dancing in my kitchen. And I love to sing. I've always sung. My father was a lovely singer. Always sang Jim Reeves at parties.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because we're Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me.
- Liar
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- Nov 07, 2020
He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing.
- Half The Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember flocks of white birds that would lift from the backs of cattle, disturbed by the jackhammers and bulldozers clearing land for Walt Disney World.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.
- Dayton
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my sister and I came along, my father's political life was completely over. He ran for president the year I was born. So that was the end of it. He had been congressman first, then governor, before all that. So when we came along, he was running the Dayton newspaper.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a newspaper editor, so I was surrounded by journalists my entire life. I think the fact that he was so well known may be why I chose to go into magazines and move to the States at a young age.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.'
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020