- Relationship
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a shaman. He told me that time doesn't exist. He didn't use a clock. He didn't know when my birthday was.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am obsessed with fashion, like my mother, and I am obsessed with art, like my father.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father loved the game. The people at the Albuquerque Academy I grew up with teaching me the game.
- Mountains
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father would chaperone at high-school dances, and the toughest guy in the high school used to want to fight my father. My father broke his hand on a guy's head once in school.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot.
- Could
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be loved by my father. I could do anything to be loved by my father.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.
- Criminal
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father tells me I would have been a criminal or a kick-boxer. But fatherhood has changed me - a lot.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to do everything for my son so that, when he grows up, he can say that he was proud of his father.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020