- Company
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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
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the most recurrent memories of my childhood is of him sitting in his armchair in the evenings, poring over atlases the way other fathers read newspapers or books.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to tell, in Hebrew, about my father who sat in jail for long years, with no trial, for his political ideas. I wanted to tell the Israelis a story, the Palestinian story.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want to have my work appreciated, but for some reason - maybe it's because my father disapproved of almost everything I did - in some secret place in my being was a desire to avoid success.
- Photography
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a salesman in Delhi and used to go around Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh for work.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before doing 'Midnight's Children,' I didn't really have a chance to explore my Indian side. The Indian side of my heritage was always present, but it did not particularly define my identity. Being English was more an identity-defining status. I was born and brought up in London. Yes, my father is Parsi.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents divorced when I was 10, but when my father was there, he was trying to create almost like a little prison for me.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmothers are Irish-American and German-American; my grandfather is from the Caribbean. My father is African-American. My family looked funny. I just started naturally imitating whoever I was talking to. I didn't want to be a phony, but I felt very authentic in the moment.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.' He named Earth Day 'Earth Day.' It falls on his birthday, April 22. Earth Day, birthday. So the idea came easily.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
If he could go back, choose another career, my father would have liked to have been an environmentalist of some kind, which is why he'd really like to be remembered for something almost nobody knows he did: naming Earth Day. It agitated him to look up Earth Day on Wikipedia recently and not see his name anywhere. So a few days ago, I added it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the Queen enjoyed my book on her father, George VI.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020