- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started talking to my therapist, we hit the source of my PTSD and the trauma that came from the things that occurred when I was younger - issues with my father and how that may have affected me.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, in a way, was a mentor in the way he instilled the basic values and ethics in me. My mother was a mentor by showing me an example to say that if women have tenacity, they can achieve whatever they have to.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother wrote a teen column for the South China Morning Post in the 1950s when she was growing up in Hong Kong. Her name was Lily Mark, but she sometimes wrote under her confirmation name, Margaret Mark. That was how she met my father.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents came to America in the late 1960s because my father studied for a Ph.D. in Indiana. My mother joined him later. We had ancestors who came over at the turn of the century. One worked in a laundry, as is typical of Chinese-American immigrants.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.
- Exporting
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.
- Prove
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father told me I couldn't possibly be a model because I was too short. He's very protective. I did it partly to prove him wrong.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was lucky enough to be raised not only by a really talented man but a really good father.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020