Sentences with phrase «harder than my father»

So I've had to work harder than my father, and I'm more disciplined than he is.

Not exact matches

Anyway, that father is the ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Russia and one of his points of advice is: [we need to] «educate ourselves and work hard and engage with life's difficult questions rather than retreat into religious obscurantism.»

In purely aesthetic terms, it's hard to imagine a starker contrast than which Father Ed Tomlinson and his family and flock must have felt four years ago when, as a group, they left their Anglican parish church of St Barnabas in Tunbridge Wells, where Father Tomlinson was vicar, entered the Catholic Church through the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and began their new life at St Anselm's in the nearby village of Pembury.

Was the question this: is it better for children to have a mother at home rather than a father at home, generally speaking, not a hard and fast rule?

finally — i'd hardly refer to mark from wherevers comment a «thesis» — but as for xianity being suppressed and rising to power — fortunately the founding fathers thought this out when they were creating our bylaws... and as a result — as hard as they try — xianity doesn't rule anything here in the usa other than very weak, delusional minds.

Her home discussions while growing up set a standard that was hard to match afterward; the church leaders that she knew at Heath were more interesting than those she met afterward: she agrees with her father that the generation that succeeded him fled into the «cellars of irrelevance.»

This seemed to her a great cruelty, for she thought to find in the cloister the true Christians she had been seeking, but she found afterwards that he knew the cloisters better than she; for after he had forbidden her, and told her he would never permit her to be a religious, nor give her any money to enter there, yet she went to Father Laurens, the Director, and offered to serve in the monastery and work hard for her bread, and be content with little, if he would receive her.

Harder for the ones trying to pass through the eye of a needle & those who don't see The Father in people different than them.

The essential thing, of course, however hard it may seem at first, is to see this marginalisation not as a sign of defeat but as the opportunity predicted more than 40 years ago by the present Holy Father:

Commissioner Slive was on the phone, who basically got after me as hard as any man has ever gotten after me, other than my father, in my life about what I just done and why I did it and why we don't do that in the SEC.

So, who better to pull together a list of what dads want for Father's Day than someone who has been on both sides of the fence — the hard - working breadwinner and the 24/7 stay - at - home parent who's gone through the baby, toddler, little girl and tween years?

The first year was actually the hardest because as a father you don't — other than just the innate connection you have to your child you don't really have the same responsibility, clearly, as the mother.

Children who are strongly attached to their mothers will take the change harder than those attached to their fathers.

I do not mean being an attached father is different or harder than being an attached mother, but there are different types of challenges involved.

Democratic Senate nominee Alexi Giannoulias» family - run business, Broadway Bank, was founded by his father more than 30 years ago, but has fallen on hard times.

On Thursday, Cuomo channeled New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — and not his more diplomatic father, the former Gov. Mario Cuomo — to accuse school lobbyists and their union clients of a political game, fraud, waste and abuse — hitting «fraud» harder than any governor before dared.

The study couldn't determine if those different brain responses meant fathers are somehow hard wired through genetics or evolution to treat sons differently than they treat daughters or if the fathers were conforming to societal norms relating to gender.

Times are tough in the Monkey Business, and Pip's father is working harder than ever to keep bananas on the table.

Charley puts in a hard day's work, gets more money than Del promised when he offered the kid a job, and arrives home the next day with bags filled with groceries, paid for with his own cash, for his waiting father.

That is because Duncan is an introverted teenager who is forced to put up with his mother's (Toni Collette) overbearing boyfriend Trent (Steve Carell), a man who is constantly trying too hard to act like a father figure towards Duncan but ends up being much more condescending than affectionate.

With a growing library of flicks like Bright and Mudbound (and First They Came for My Father and The Meyerowitz Stories and Okja and 1922 and a whole range of other movies) combined with the standup specials pouring forth from the streaming service and a hot new show once every couple months — to say nothing of the increasingly unimportant back catalog of Hollywood titles — it's hard to think of a better value for your dollar than the eleven bucks Netflix's streaming service runs you each month.

It's a hard lesson for Nasha (Anna Lee), who misdirects the Gestapo soldiers during his escape and hides him when the area is cordoned off at curfew, then chooses to turn him in when her father (Walter Brennan), a scholar who clearly knows more about the resistance than he voices, is arrested as a hostage.

The constant barrage of pop culture takedowns and rude behavior in general make it a little harder to accept (at anything other than face value) the «heart» portion of Deadpool 2, which consists mostly of the Firefist father - figure storyline (eerily similar to last year's Logan) and Wade's one - dimensional relationship with fiancée Vanessa (Morena Baccarin).

But it's harder for parents to stay involved when they work long hours: Young children whose mothers or fathers work more than 40 hours per week score worse on verbal tests than children whose parents work full time.

Jim's life is upside down: his father is out of work and spends his days on the couch watching TV or flying model planes; his mother is the hard - working breadwinner; his sister Becky has stopped washing her armpits and has a biker boyfriend Jim calls Craterface; and Jim is worried he will be expelled from school due to his less - than - stellar academic performance.

While it's true that a good man is hard to find, most of us need look no further than father for a superior example of the male species.

Realistic but without more intensity than middle grade readers can handle, Sarah's pitch - perfect narration captures her frustration in trying to communicate with her distant father («He is hard, frozen ice cream and I am a weak spoon.»)

Ken Lum's Alex Gonzalez Loves his Mother and Father (1989), cheeky but sweet, generically graphic but radiant, communicates a complex dynamic: There are more signs and symbols in society than ever before, but meaning is only getting harder to grasp.

It was really a matter of reinforcement and not learning as I grew up watching my father work harder than the next guy to succeed in the field of personal injury litigation.

I know that old habits die hard and many courts do still tend to prefer to give custody to mothers rather than fathers.

However, fathers can not seek custody until they have proven paternity of the child; there is some evidence that fathers may have to work harder than mothers to get custody of their children.

Flowers blooming, healthy kids, my dad is coming to babysit tonight for our weekly (yes, weekly - I am SO spoiled) date night, there's enough bread on the counter that I don't need to bake another batch for a few days, my daughter loves the flower clippie I made for her, we're going to the farmer's market again tomorrow, Heavenly Father has blessed me with health and talents and skills to see our family through hard times AND good times (which, you know, can be more difficult to navigate than the lean...) Oh, there are so many things to make me happy this morning:)