- Mother
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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
- Motorcycle
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first jolt I received in my life was when I lost my father in a motorcycle accident when I was eight. I would have been with him if he hadn't turned down my request to go out with him that afternoon.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's own view was more than entrepreneurship; it was really a passion to build an institution in India.
- Nov 07, 2020
My father is a very strict man.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so proud to be a Latina. Growing up and being Latina and growing up with my father and getting to do a lot of the Hispanic traditions, I loved it.
- Once
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- Nov 07, 2020
I resemble the father I once hated.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had risen in the British Army under the revolutionary aegis of General Montgomery, who was mad about training for battle, not muddling into disaster.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It must have been the fall of 1952 when my father returned to London sporting a neck tie emblazoned with the words 'I Like Ike.'
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college - and, with four sons after the war, said he could still not afford to do so.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say my biggest mentor has been my father because he always has been. Actually both of my parents have always been ones to encourage me to be myself and stay true to myself and not fall into what other people want me to do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but for the most part I grew up in the South and D.C. I got the travel bug as a little person and I've bounced around a lot.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always danced with my father in the living room. He did lifts with me, and he would twirl me around, and we’d laugh and giggle.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father grew up very conservative, and he really had set expectations for what boys and girls were supposed to be like. So when I came out to him, that did not fit into his plan of what raising twin boys was going to be like.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pressure is always a part of a racing driver's life, but my father helped me a lot on my way to becoming a F1 driver.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020