- Personality
- |
- 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
- More
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My father, A. M. Rosenthal, edited the 'Times' for nearly 20 years and worked at the paper for many more.
- Children
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot let Justin Trudeau do to my children what his father did to my generation.
- Opera
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My father's an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera immersion. I like the grandness and pretention of it.
- Politics
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Al Gore's problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He's actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had to do it because of his father. He's much more comfortable in a private sector role and has, in fact, been much more successful in a private sector role, and I admire him for that.
- Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.
- Chef
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a chef but hadn't owned his own business. I didn't like that. In my heart of hearts, I knew I wanted to be in business.
- Orientation
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think naturally my orientation is from my father.
- Fear
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My father, Colin, and my brother, Chris, who is four years older than me, were a great help to me when I was younger.
- Did
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My father did advertising photography.
- Housewife
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was largely a housewife until she and my father were divorced. No one in the family read for pleasure - it was a very unintellectual household - but my mother did read to us when we were little, and that's how I started to read.
- Mother
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I read a lot, very passionately, from the time I was very young, but it was a constant battle; my mother would more or less let me be, but with my father, I was always searching for a place where he wouldn't find me. Whenever he saw me reading, he would tell me to put the book down and go outside, act like a normal person.
- Dating
- |
- Nov 07, 2020