- First World
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's mother was a secular Jew who died in Auschwitz. I only found out as an adult because my father never talked about it. He was a secularist and never defined himself in ethnic terms - partly, I think, because he was scared; partly out of the habit of not talking of such things; partly because he didn't like being defined by other people.
- Kiss
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.
- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a bullfighter.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do Christians sin? Yes, absolutely. But can Christians live in a state of sin without discipline and without being brought back in obedience to their Father? Absolutely not.
- Cusp
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- Nov 07, 2020
My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.
- Driveway
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had an invisible job outside of the house; I didn't know what he did. But my kids were privy to the ups and downs of a writer's life.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020