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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
- Appeared
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- Nov 07, 2020
My stepmother appeared when I was about 9. My brother was sent off to an institute in Scotland & my sister & I were sent to school. As my stepmother's ideas were then wholly Quaker, mixed with a naive & charming innocence & a little snobbery, it was one dotty epoch on top of another. I always remained terrified of my father.
- Fishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothers. There, I developed a deep appreciation for protecting land and waterways. There, I learned outdoorsmanship.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a latecomer to romance, although I did read gothics. My father used to work for the 'Fort Worth Star-Telegram,' and their book reviewer, author Leonard Sanders, would pass on the gothics for my dad to give to me since Leonard didn't review gothics. I gobbled up books by Mary Stewart, Madeleine Brent, Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I idolized my father, especially as a young boy. He was bigger than life. He commanded the room.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, I'm ahead of my father. He got other prizes... But he did not get a Nobel Prize.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.
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- Nov 07, 2020