Sentences with phrase «old father told»

I'll always remember Jackie's 69 - year - old father telling me how upset he was that he had worked so hard farming his land and then couldn't access the money because he was afraid to sell.

Not exact matches

Abdulbaki Todashev, the father of 27 - year - old Ibragim Todashev, told a Moscow press conference that U.S. officials haven't told him anything about the May 22 shooting and that he believes that his son was killed to keep him from talking.

It was disclosed by her older brother, Thomas Markle Jr, who told DailyMail.com that Markle's father was «proud» of the relationship and that the prince and the actress, 35, were «very much in love».

In a description of the writer Andre Dubus, we are told, «The relationship between Dubus and his father, then, feels comfortably preconciliar: he is shy with the older man, but their silence goes deeper.»

In «The Crime of the Communist,» the urbane, worldly master of an Oxford college tells Father Brown that he prefers the old adage «For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; he can't be wrong whose life is in the right.»

Fast forward 30 years, and my father tells me he went back to England on a business trip and was able to visit the old ward where he had taught those two boys.

I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old, things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us.

Zechariah is told he is to be a father — a message that is unexpected but certainly not undesirable, for Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth are old and childless in a society that puts a high value on having children.

There are also many prophecies about Jesus in the Old Testament, including the divine play that was enacted every year by the Priests, which tells is much about Jesus role and the Father in our salvation.

One of those who has given evidence told me the story of a Christian family: a mother and 12 year - old daughter which were raped by ISIS militants, leading the father, who was forced to watch, to commit suicide.

Catholics tell the story of a ten - year - old attending the ordination of a bishop with his father.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

From that fateful date the Holy Spirit, speaking through the Pope and the Fathers of the Council (not the periti) told the Church that a new frame was needed, both to safeguard the ancient treasury of the Faith, and to draw forth from that treasury «new» things for this age, as well as the old things.

It must produce churches that are not embarrassed to tell us that when we say the «Our Father,» we are patriarchs of the oldest kind.»

Just because Wars had been waged in the name of religion doesn't make the point of it Wrong,,, otherwise why does it say (He who loves me, keeps my commandments) almost at the same time as it says (I give you a new commandment, love...) in short, Yes, Jesus is what matters, but to know Jesus I need His word, the Bible, I need a relationship with Him, I need to understand What He wants me to be Like (Be Holy as your Father in Heaven) which is not just an old testament quote, but a new Testament as well,,, at the end, if Religion was so pointless and to be hated, why Would God ask us to test the spirits, why does he tell us (by their fruits you would know them.)

The 31 year old, who was diagnosed with depression aged 19, told The Sunday Times that, despite her father's public role in the Church, she decided initially not to seek his help.

For a mother to tell her young daugher that»... she is definitely not going to be saved...» or having a father teach her 7 year old daughter that «the Sun will turn blood red and there will be thousands of bodies in the street...» is beyond comprehension.

Our first briefing that morning had been on the avoidance of cobras: Riddi, a forty - year - old father who lived in one of the longhouses in Bario and had been making some money guiding Western trekkers (about a hundred visited every year), told me that the cobras only attacked if you stepped on them or if they were laying eggs and they felt threatened.

Gesturing around at Marlow & Sons, Reynolds — whose general contracting company is called Execution by Design — told me that a lot of the aesthetic was inspired by old French and Italian restaurants, and the all - purpose Irish pubs («Some are grocery store, bar, undertaker, post office — everything but a church») he'd been to in the west of Ireland, while visiting his father's family or heading out to the country while at school in Galway.

I remember Jay Rhodes telling us in orientation the story of how he took the oath of office when he was eight years old, standing beside his father.

The man next to him, either his young father or older brother, told him how awful Derby people are in general.

This became more evident when Jeremy «Duke» Brown, a 25 - year - old father of five, told his story from the passenger seat of Littlejohn's car as they drove to their season opener.

What he wanted to forget was that he was almost 24 years old, though he lied to most people and told them he was two years younger, that his knee hurt and that his father was waiting to hear from him back home in Texas.

- Nabil Fekir's father has dealt Manchester City a blow by telling Le Parisien his son will only leave Lyon for Arsenal, as he does not want the 21 - year - old starlet to waste away on the Premier League champions» bench.

Just don't fall into the trap of relying on the age - old «Wait until I tell your mother» (or father) mantra.

I had just found out I was pregnant, and after telling the father - to - be, I next went to see my friend Martha, who had a four - month - old son.

Despite how far women have come, there remains a sort of unspoken belief that our daughters would be better off married than solo; at the recent wedding of his oldest daughter, one of three, the father of the bride repeatedly was told, «One down, two to go,» as if all his daughters will marry, all his daughters want to marry and — most important — he won't have to «worry» about that one.

don't you love how fathers will just go along with anything for their precious little daughters I remember trading my old car in (I was 25) and I felt bad because I grew attached, and I told my dad and he goes, don't worry probably some nice old man will buy it and he will take a good care of it.

«I told her being a parent is a feeling that she will not understand until she actually has the child,» said Dempsey, a father of twin 18 - month - old sons and a 6 - year - old daughter.

Dear Abby: This is in response to «Aching in Atlanta,» who told her family, after her father died, that he had molested her when she was 5 and 6 years old.

All day everybody was on their worst behavior - temper tantrums, no naps, food all over the floor, disobedience, multiple time - outs, and you swore you heard yourself tell your 15 month old «wait until your father gets home!»

One father of a 9 - year - old with oppositional defiant disorder tells us he relies on camp to get his son outside; as well as provide structure and routine.

David Cameron has told the father of 14 - year - old Hannah Smith, who committed suicide two weeks ago, he is «grateful» for having the issue of online bullying raised once again.

«All I know is that when I would tell him that I'm hungry, he would say that he doesn't have money to buy me something to eat,» says 17 - year - old Althea of growing up with her father.

Since her husband, Carl, won the Republican nomination for governor of New York last week, the only story in the race as compelling as his upset victory has been their personal back story: that her husband not only had an affair, not only fathered a child with that other woman, but also told his wife of 40 years about it all the same week that their 29 - year - old son, Patrick, was killed in a car accident.

Starting in January 2016, the scandal - plagued ex-lawmaker allegedly carried out a months - long relationship with a 15 - year - old North Carolina girl — whose father told the Daily Mail that Weiner was aware of her age.

The current governor said he and one of his daughters visited his father Sunday night and told him the 82 year - old he would be visiting Fort Drum the next day.

The group confronted the 18 - year - old and her father near the handball courts in Osborn Playground, at Lott Avenue and Osborn Avenue, about 9:10 p.m. on Jan. 7 and pointed a gun at the father, telling him to leave the area, NYPD officials said.

Lawyers for former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam today argued that the federal corruption charges against the pair — which allege that the elder Mr. Skelos obtained posh jobs for the younger from companies with business before the state — really tell a heartwarming tale of a «caring and concerned» father and his «rude,» «volatile» and «immature and emotional» 33 - year - old boy.

While recounting her ordeal to the elders of the community, the 13 - year - old girl said her father had slept with her severally, adding that he threatened to stab her to death if she told anyone.

During the Haiti earthquake, when Diane Caves, a 31 - year - old public health employee at the CDC, died — when the hotel she was staying in in Haiti collapsed — I certainly will never forget sitting down with her husband and father to tell them that she had passed away and been killed there.

Can you tell which of these three men is the father of the one - year - old boy shown here?

It also makes me want to scream over the fact that we have spent countless hours going to numerous medical specialists, spent thousands of dollars (not to mention Luke's intense suffering... seriously, it would even reduce my 65 year old father to tears) on blood tests, prescriptions, etc., all to be told that nothing was wrong and he would eventually out grow it.

Let me tell you about myself am Austin Noah of US ARMY, am from Inglewood CA, am 43 years old single father of two lovely kids....

SOLLERS POINT tells the story of Keith (McCaul Lombardi), a twenty - four - year - old newly released from prison and living with his father (Jim Belushi) under house arrest in Baltimore.

The 40 - year - old actor and «super dad» has starred in all of the «Pirates of the Caribbean» films - including a 10 minute appearance in the upcoming pirates» sequel «Dead Men Tell No Tales» in which he plays Will Turner, father to Henry (Brenton Thwaites).

Based on Kevin Cook's Tommy's Honor: The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf's Founding Father and Son, it tells the story of the pioneering golfing champions Old Tom Morris and his son Young Tom Morris, -LSB-...]

The 31 - year - old father - of - two told Ellen: «So we start making out, and we're making out, and making out and no one is saying stop.

The accelerated coming - of - age aspect is at its best when his father - figure Willie brusquely tells him «You are 14 years old and you're a man!

Abe (Broadway veteran Jordan Gelber), an overweight 35 - year - old, instilled with a certain confidence after being told throughout his life that he'll be «a dark horse,» lives with his parents (Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow), and even works for his dad, a successful developer of strip malls, his only real friend being his father's secretary Marie (Donna Murphy).