- 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
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
- Nov 07, 2020
With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father describes himself as a Pole of Lithuanian descent. At Southampton University, he read aeronautical engineering and then the family moved to Hong Kong - this was before I was born - where he designed aeroplanes. Back in the U.K., he worked as a civil engineer, although every spare minute was spent researching his family's history.
- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's legacy is going to be talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years.
- Sun
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is the sun in my universe.
- Comforted
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was with my father at his end, as he was with me at my beginning. In the thirty-three years we shared together, he raised me, taught me, corrected me, comforted me, encouraged me, and supported me in all things.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mufti sahab, apart from being my father, was one of the tallest leaders of the state and the country.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in awe of my father. His generosity was beyond anything I ever could imagine. The reason I say he's like Don Corleone is he was always breaking off hundreds. I'd be like, 'Hey Dad, I'm going to McDonald's with my friends,' and he'd just whip out a hundred: 'Here, go, have fun.'
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents come from that immigrant culture that places a lot of emphasis on doing well scholastically. Being a comedian or an actor is such an American thing. The Iranian culture is not about dreaming. It's about taking over your father's business, falling into line.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father saw Islam as a way to connect with the community. He never went to prayer services except for big communal events. I am absolutely certain that my father did not go to services every Friday. He was not religious.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020