- 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
Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a father is just wonderful.
- Documentary Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father and mother do not know literacy. I cannot go to school due to financial difficulties. I started to working at a butcher as an apprentice when I was 14.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020