- Diaries
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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
- Kick
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is a trainer. From childhood, I would watch him train and kick and punch.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father pushed me to be a footballer. At every opportunity, he took me with him to play football. He came with me to matches.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a roundabout way... He listened, looking at me with that serious and penetrating gaze of his that caused me such trepidation, and asked whether I knew what I wanted to do.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father said, 'You should do 'A Day in the Life of Medicine.' A book about how the human race wants to heal itself in new ways.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army was still in Austria. I grew up subsequently in posts around the country around veterans.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020