- 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
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, who has played a bit of cricket, comes to Chepauk to watch every game I play.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father came to Hyderabad to become an actor, took an acting course, and realised he was camera conscious.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my father. My mother is 90 percent blind and deaf. She left and moved all the way to California. So I left my two older sisters and my father behind at the age of eleven and moved cross-country to take care of her.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I told my father that I wanted to join the film industry, he asked me if I was sure about it, as acting is a very insecure profession. He also asked me if my reason to join the same profession like him was to have an easy road. I said no.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father said he will always support me but just not as an action director. It is a deal between both of us. He is an inspiration because he is a self-made man. I want to set that same example for my kids. I will fight it out.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, my father never got his profession to the house. We didn't discuss films on the dining table.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
- Blocks
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a two-parent household and my father is a PhD from west Africa, but at the same time I grew up five blocks from where Obama lived and five blocks from the projects.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was from upstate New York; she's of Irish and German descent. My father was from Ghana.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020