- Innovation
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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
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given my belief that there is a divine purpose for my father's life on this planet, given the way I was raised, it's real hard to get angry. I get that from my daddy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as people heard me speak, they would compare me to my father. My siblings had the same kind of pressure.
- Shine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have chosen to continue to promote 'we're one, the oneness of us,' and shine the spotlight, as my father did.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was watching the news that day when the bulletin came on that my father had been shot. I prayed. I asked God, 'Please don't let my daddy die.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was bigger than life, an entity and everyone expected us, as his offspring, to be saintettes, these little carbon copies.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that I'm very much in touch with my father's spirit and presence. I feel it, sense it and take much energy and inspiration from that.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was not really pleased when I told him of my choice to train as an actress, when he was with us in this dimension.
- Coordinating
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020