- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese before we spoke English. We left when the communists came, in the early 1930s. I was about 5 years old.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the Fugard line of alcoholism. Thankfully I haven't passed it on to my child, a wonderful daughter who's stone-cold sober. But I had the tendency from my father, just as he had had it from his father.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both my parents are well educated; my father worked for the CBI before becoming a businessman, and my mother was a civil surgeon. But I did not want to be a doctor.
- Inspirational
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way my father worked altruistically and the manner in which he used to go behind bars and come back home smilingly was inspirational.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even before his detention, my father was fighting many cases. He remained in jail in Multan. He remained in jail in Bannu. But we were not allowed to go see him there. We always saw him in courts. So for me, the courts were a place where you dressed up to see your father. It had a very nice feeling to it.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been very impressed with the courts we visited to see my father. The judges wearing wigs, the lawyers, the legal arguments - it was all exciting stuff for a kid.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's mother really had a profound influence on me. She literally began her day with an hour of reading. But the most fundamental impact was education.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020