- Me
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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
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started with capital of about $1,500, a princely sum for a student coming out of college, an amount I borrowed from my father.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the important things for me is that my father is from Sri Lanka. But even more importantly, he was a consultant for the World Bank.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like pretty conservative guys, good guys. I always look for the qualities I find in my father.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer's disease. But I'd often thought, God, we were so lucky that was the order in which they died because she would have felt put upon.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every philanthropist has a soft corner for one issue. For me it is health, because my father was a doctor.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis. I went round the night my mother was lying in the kitchen, and I organised everything, from the undertaker to the funeral... I looked after everybody, I sorted it all out and I've done so ever since.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cancer has affected my family; my mother and father have battled cancer. I know how tough it is.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.
- Frederick
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1933 in New York City to Frederick and Eva Weinberg. My early inclination toward science received encouragement from my father, and by the time I was 15 or 16, my interests had focused on theoretical physics.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking back, when I was fourteen, I aspired to... be the best believer, husband, father, businessman, and man of integrity that I can be.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm actually Cuban-born, born in 1956, the year Fidel Castro came into power, and my father moved my family to Miami a few years later when things were starting to look bad.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
After watching my poor mother being sometimes neglected by my father, it was almost tattooed on my brain that I would never cause hardship or despair to a partner.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1984, as a college freshman, I spent a fall weekend at a friend's house in suburban Chicago. His father worked for Beatrice Foods, a sponsor of the Chicago Marathon, and we watched that race from the finish line as a Welshman named Steve Jones set a new world marathon record. I was bewitched by the race and, especially, the clock.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020