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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
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.
- Maker
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read my father's books growing up. I thought then and I still think now that his writing is wonderful. It delights and infuriates me in equal measure that he's still that good.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father.
- Greatness
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it. Part of why she left him was this delusion of greatness and identifying it very directly with being an artist.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to steel myself against this psychic devastation - to see your father on the street. It's hard enough to pick up somebody you don't know from the streets, and then to actually have other people pick your father up - it was psychically devastating.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.
- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike his father, Churchill was not a natural speaker.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I attained my seventh year, my father, whose ear was unmusical but who was nevertheless passionately fond of music, gave me my elementary lessons on the violin; in a very few months, I was able to play all manner of compositions at sight.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father has been by my side since I was little. He takes care of things, my finances and my family.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020