- 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
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Varavelpu' has a special place in my heart because it was inspired from my own father's experiences.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so interesting that the romantic side of my life comes from my father, who I really didn't even know that well.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about trying to get my father healthier, and there were moments when he was healthier. Then someone would give him a drink. I always felt if he had one person in his life who supported his healthy side, he'd be on his way.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage is a walk in the park compared to being a single mother or father. I'll take that walk later.
- Cricket
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The Body In The Library.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Please don't try and dramatize my relationship with Woody Allen. He was never any kind of father figure to me.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest challenge for myself is to be the best father I can be and be the best husband I can be.
- Beautiful Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the beautiful thing about being a father for the first time; it has really made me get my concentration levels in check.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alia and Shaheen have a smart father and have got good genes. But it's not fair that people expect them to do as well as their father.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father sort of relented. He saw Rajiv, and he said he is a good man. But his more worried about his daughter, because I was going far to a place completely different... with completely different customs. He felt that perhaps I would not be able to accustom to these new ways.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father died, I was nine or 10, and my mother was like a dad and a mom to me. She raised me and supported me when I came to the U.S.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really actually started when I was 10 years old, but before that, I loved to play with Father because he played as an ex-player. I just enjoyed it, so I started at 10 years old with Father to be a proper football player.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020