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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
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then.
- Lion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch in what was then Northern Rhodesia, providing work for the locals. He was my hero when I was a boy.
- Lifestyle
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brother and I both used to worry about dying at 40 because our father died at 40. That probably wasn't terribly rational, since my father led a rather unhealthy lifestyle, shall we say.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I said the rosary, and I said the Our Father, as they call it in the Catholic Church. One of the things I learned in the conversion process was to say the rosary, and I had a set of rosary beads. So I said 'Hail Mary, full of grace.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a son of Jamaican immigrants whose father cut sugarcane as a contract farm worker for over a decade and whose mother was a cook who fed those migrant workers out in the fields, the odds have always been against me growing up in rural South Bay, Fla.
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
- Nov 07, 2020