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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
- Demanded
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- Nov 07, 2020
The transition from an English father to a Punjabi stepfather demanded an adjustment that was far from easy for a 10-year-old boy who had just lost his father.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was somewhere between child and adult, my father left us. My first family broke apart, but this liberated me to create a new family as I pleased.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was what you would call a cowboy, a vaquero; he worked out in the ranches with cattle. And my mother came from farmers down in the valley.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father happened to be a doctor, and though I loved and idealized him privately, professionally I never had any use for him or anyone connected with that science.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I think one of the big things wrong with kids these days, a lot of them don't have a family. A lot of them got one parent and there's quite a few that don't have any parents and that's where the whole problem is. There's no family life, no father to slap 'em around when they need it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest tribute you can to pay to my father is to continue to train and share Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, remembering to never lose sight of the fact that what you do off the matt counts more than what you do on the matt.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father died, my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies, there is that shock: 'Oh man, I'm an orphan.' There's also this relief: It's done; it's finished; it's over.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so scared of my father. He'd pull up in his truck and start looking for something I'd done wrong. There was no escape, no excuse, no way out of nothing.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in a very, very loving household. I had quite unusual parents, and my father has always been my hero.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.
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