- Says
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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
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy them individually, but also the entire book as a whole.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any father can relate to feeling like a superhero when you put a Band-Aid on your kid.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Father Fernando did every thing in his power to assist the sick; and although he arrived much reduced in flesh, he did not become ill, and is now well.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in Austin, Texas, around trial lawyers. My friend and I - we were 14 - would go and watch her father try cases. I also heard of lot of Baptist preachers in little churches saying crazy things with such conviction.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Supermoms,' my ex-husband and father of my 15-year-old child was a writer-producer on that project. We're both of the mind that we should try and handle these changing times as best we can. He's very forward-thinking about brand marketing.
- Disloyal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.
- Disapproval
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
He wasn't a great father. He was a great musician. That's always been a touchy one, and it will be until I can find the answer, but I don't know if there is one.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wisest man may be a blind father.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020