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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother came from a very affluent background, very Westernized, while my father was more Eastern. So I've had a very good blend of the East and the West. I guess this has been extremely helpful in making my career and the way I function.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite unique because he has a Ph.D. in English Literature. He taught at Harvard University, which is one of the most prominent universities in the country.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi's father.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I sat down to write 'Rules of Civility,' I didn't write it for anybody but myself. I wasn't trying to make my mark or make money. I wasn't anxious about feeding my kids or whether my father would be proud of me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doubt is the father of invention.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family. There was a lot of love and a lot of conflict. The conflict kicked in mostly during my adolescence.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I've ever come to terms with not having had a father around, and that's why I made so many mistakes with men.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The historian Linda Colley has analysed how and why George III transformed himself from being a figure of 'perfect hatred' to the father of the country.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism and hostage-taking through ransom payments ... Still, try telling that to a mother, or a father, or a husband or wife caught in the powerless agony of standing by.
- Strict
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was very strict.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was from East Bengal. Having lost everything to the Partition, he came as a refugee.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020