- Adequately
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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
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.
- Cat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the seventh child in a family of eight siblings. We lost our father very young, and my mother had pretty much single-handedly brought us up.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very interested in knowledge. He insisted that I get as much education as my brothers.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an actor. But instead he did two jobs. He did customer service at a hospital and he worked as a waiter at night. He pretty much sacrificed everything for his daughters.
- Drill
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a drill sergeant, and I've always had that mentality drilled into me of 'you've got to do better, you've got to do better.' I just try to listen to the characters. That's what works for me.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family line that stretches back generations and runs along the Nile, from the concrete of Cairo to the coast of Alexandria.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. Just because we got rid of the father of the nation in Egypt or Tunisia, Mubarak or Ben Ali, and in a number of other countries, does not mean that the father of the family does not still hold sway.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.
- Promises
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- Nov 07, 2020
By virtue of who we are, what we know, the promises we made to our Heavenly Father, and the fact that we are living now and where we are living, I absolutely think we were all born to lead.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Father knew exactly what He was doing when He created us. He made us enough alike to love each other, but enough different that we would need to unite our strengths and stewardships to create a whole.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.
- Endowment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment He could give His daughters, a sacred trust that gave women an unparalleled role in helping His children keep their second estate.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020