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.
My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.
My father was Greek, but he turned French during the war, and my mother was French. So I'm French, but I have Greek blood.
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Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a...
My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
Family Man Quotes
6I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
The loss of my father will always sting. But now, everything that I do is in honor of him and celebrates his life.
You go to a theater, you're in a darkened room, and you watch someone that you don't really know how many children they have or what their father's nickname might be; you don't have references and databases and rumors and...
My father is my father, and I am me. I have the advantage of this honest comparison, quiet, and the opportunity to share in his profession.
'Swept Away' is one of my favorite films of my father. I've seen it about 20 times. It's a cult movie in Italy.
Father Figure Quotes
1I have to hold a meeting with the rising generation every evening, and that takes time. Henry can say, 'Twinkle, twinkle,' all himself, and Edward can repeat it after his father! Giants of genius! Paragons of erudition!
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One quote reflects on an inherited worry about mortality tied to a father's early death, while another describes navigating identity between two communities because of mixed-race parentage. Explore Poems or Anmol Vachan for more.
