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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
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised in the south side of Stockton, California, to a mother still in high school and a father in a juvenile detention facility.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided that I would defy expectations, be it those put on me by society, race, socioeconomic status, or my father.
- War
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father served in World War II, he wasn't told, 'Go to Europe for four months, for six months, and then you can come back, and there'll be plenty of big bases there for you to serve on, and don't worry about it.'
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing, when I got the money, I knew I would support somebody. And the person I supported was my family. Because we were really in debt with the money. And - so I gave to my father this suitcase full of money. And he couldn't believe it. And that was something very special.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not separate Christ from God more than a voice from the speaker or a beam from the sun. Christ is the voice of the speaker. He and the Father are the same thing, as the beam and the light, are the same light.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have become my own father.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020