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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was really into yoga, and back then, it seemed like we were really the only ones who knew about yoga. It amazes me now... just what a movement yoga has become and what an industry it's become.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
After my father died, we faced hardship but never asked anybody for help. We were self-sufficient.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother gave birth to me on the floor of our apartment in Mecca with only my toddler sister to help her because my father was at work and no male guardian was available to take her to a hospital.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's generation of Saudi men are more liberal than the men of my generation. But with women, it's the opposite.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother ran away from my father after 16 years of being married to him. She was 16 when she hooked up with him. She left him after having six kids.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is an amazing person.
- Nov 07, 2020
My father is my inspiration.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt it was a privilege that I came from such a rich background. I had the best of both worlds. My mother was a Shia Muslim, while my father was a janoi-clad man. He never pretended to be secular.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020