- Cake
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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
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.
- Geoffrey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, before the war, developing guitar pickups. So there was a kind of family thing about the guitar, although it was considered something of an anomaly then.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1935. But my mother and father - who were immigrants from Ireland - and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it off. So he didn't get what a lot of Irish immigrants got, which was a job on the Waterfront - he didn't get that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father did shape me. He didn't drive because he had one leg, and for years I never drove. I had no mobility.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an interpreter for all the Latin American pilots at the naval base. He was very well educated. My mother was a hairdresser who sang every day.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the city. Both my mother and father were factory workers, and I loved the life in the 'metro.' Everybody saw me as a very urban guy. And I was.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kenya has deep resonances for the royals: it was here, after all, that the young Princess Elizabeth heard of the death of her father, George VI. From that moment, she was Queen.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020