- Engineering
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian.
- Indian
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been raised in the mountains of Idaho by a father who distrusted many of the institutions that people take for granted - public education, doctors and hospitals, and the government.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A leader has to be a role model both in both political and personal life, so from the beginning, I was cautious about my image and I wanted to be incorruptible like my father.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, while touring Ramanathapuram, came to know about my affiliation with the BJP when newspapers carried articles about the new faces of the party.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was in the Air Force, so I travelled all over India. I was born in Delhi.
- Open
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- Nov 07, 2020