- Anything
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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
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this appreciation for different cultures.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was studying architecture at Berkeley when my father passed away in 2007. We knew he had cancer, but we didn't expect it to escalate so rapidly. In my mind, it was like, 'He'll pull through.' When he didn't, I didn't understand. I was 21, and my best friend had died.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ambati Rambabu walked with my father for 1,500 kilometres during his historic 'padayatra' before 2004 elections. It is because of the work done by activists like him that Congress won assembly elections twice.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't speak for others, but I miss my father.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2009, my father wanted me to join politics. I told him, 'Why should I jump into the dirt and grime of politics when I can have politicians come to me as owner of a media group?' Then my father gave me an ultimatum.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought there would be a day when I would have to handle things without my father.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been lucky enough to work with great coaches. My father was also a coach, and my position in central midfield requires tactical knowledge.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.
- Ghetto
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was a seamstress and a substitute schoolteacher, off and on. So, that all adds up to no money.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I please.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Muenchen where my father has been a professor for pharmaceutic chemistry at the university. He had studied chemistry and medicine, having been a research student in Leipzig with Wilhelm Ostwald, the Nobel Laureate 1909. So I became familiar with the life of a scientist in a chemical laboratory quite early.
- Colleague
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- Nov 07, 2020