Sentences with phrase «stories about fathers»

Rather than one life, Larry King's My Dad & Me: A Heartwarming Collection of Stories About Fathers from a Host of Larry's Famous Friends offers remembrances of the many fathers, good and bad, who influenced the lives of celebrities from actors to astronauts.

He selected and edited these letters into a series of deeply moving stories about fathers and fatherhood, as told by their children.

With that said, we don't hear equally as amazing stories about fathers who go through the same struggle.

Now imagine the same information cloaked in the trappings of a great story, «a story about a family in South America that is being affected by changes in the global economy — a story about the father going to work in a foreign country to earn enough for the family, and the mother having to drive 100 kilometers for health care.»

It was a story about Father Quinn working for justice down in South America.

Virtually all of my stories about my father involve alcohol.

Michael Joncas reflects on Andre Dubus» 1983 short story about a father wrestling with his conscience as he covers up the vehicular homicide committed by his daughter.

Jesus told a story about the Father seeing the sparrow fall to the ground, and that we should therefore be comforted that the Father cares for us... because we are more important than sparrows.

What a sweet story about your father - in - law.

I also told them good stories about their father, so they would think highly of him.»

Q: I found Mackenzie Phillipss story about her father so sad.

A man tells another man a story about his father being caught in a giant storm at sea; he survived unharmed even after his sail ripped.

There's little doubt that Due Date gets off to an almost disastrously underwhelming start, as director Todd Phillips, working from a script cowritten with Alan R. Cohen, Alan Freedland, and Adam Sztykiel, offers up a series of eye - rollingly broad comedic set pieces that are both unfunny and without any basis in reality (ie Peter receives a beating from a wheelchair - bound redneck, Ethan laughs hysterically after Peter tells him a sad story about his father, etc).

With The Lost City of Z, he has realized his true epic — a story that spans continents and decades — yet kept his finger on the intimate pulse that's always made his movies work: This is a great movie about ambition, colonization, and audacious dreaming, but even more than that it's a moving (and tragic) story about fathers and sons.

Whereas the first film was a story about fathers - and - daughters, a second could see the rise of two Wasps — Hope Van Dyne taking the suit from the mid-credits scene, and also the rescue of her mother Janet from the Quantum Realm.

«Nebraska» sees Payne return to his home state for a relatively simple story about a father - son road trip, and though it features some good laughs and decent performances, the movie never really goes anywhere.

He's an interesting choice to helm this story about a father trying to help his meth - addicted son.

It finally decides that at the core of the elaborate structure is a touching story about a father and son, and it pays off quite well.

It's a story about a father and daughter staying connected as they get closer to being farther apart than ever before.

while creating a charming story about a father and daughter and the bond that keeps them together and eventually pulls them apart.

It is a poignant, multi-generational story about a father's love and everything a parent will sacrifice to build a better life for his child.

20th Century Women is writer - director Mike Mills» follow - up to Beginners, the semi-autobiographical story about his father (played by Christopher Plummer) who comes out at 75.

Mackenzie is all over the media — Oprah, People, CNN, and much more — airing unspeakably horrible stories about her father, her own arrest for possession of heroin at an airport, and the like.

Certified financial planner Cecilia Tsang has related a sad story about her father being diagnosed with cancer just as his group life and disability coverage was being reduced to a fraction of what he had expected.

In the Introduction to my 2003 copy of Philip A. Fisher's Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings, his son, Kenneth L. Fisher, recounts a story about his father that has stuck w...

Today I share my story about my father who is currently an expat living in the Philippines.

Indeed, in a 2007 interview with Vanity Fair, titled «Richard Prince's Outside Streak», writer Steven Daly wrote: «[the artist] faked an interview between himself and British author J. G. Ballard, and you can't quite tell if Prince is serious when he repeats the old story about his father working for the Office of Strategic Services... and defoliating forests in Vietnam.»

Why do you keep on telling your kids funny stories about father Christmas living at North Pole?

In addition to How to Find a Woman... Or Not, Gary Morgenstein's books include the novels Loving Rabbi Thalia Kleinman, a romance about a divorced man who falls in love with a beautiful woman rabbi; Jesse's Girl, a powerful story about a father's search for his adopted teenage son, and Take Me Out to the Ballgame, a political baseball thriller, as well as the baseball Rocky The Man Who Wanted to Play Center Field for the New York Yankees.

Taking Daughter To Church May Violate Court Order Dad Says Half - Jewish Child Should Be Exposed To Christianity, Too by Chicago Tribune Reporter Mike Puccinell at http://bit.ly/8CLYdi A compelling story about a Father and his child has appeared in Illinois media this week.

- Here's a very moving, personal story about a father who lost his wife and had to help guide his children through their grief while dealing with his own.

He shared a fun story about his father meeting her, but I will direct you to my video interview for that full excerpt from our chat.

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The story goes that Buterin learned about Bitcoin from his father at 17 and began writing about it for cryptocurrency news websites.

It's a story almost exclusively about a small, personal thing: Fathers who have looked at their lives and realized they have failed their children.

Towards then end, when we knew there would be no more treatment, I would listen to my mother and father talk about their life together and recall funny stories.

Thank you for this story, it too made me cry, for I believe in my savior Jesus Christ and this story of LOVE is what it is all about,, Thanks again, Imiss my mother and father terribly but this story brought back great memories.

The Parable of the Prodigal Son is really the Parable of the Loving Father, but we seem to always have to make everything, even the Scriptures about us which, of course, causes us to miss the whole point of the story.

Some recent contributions to this conversation include Grace Biskie's plea to engage in racial reconciliation, Erin Thomas» story of what it's like to be a person of faith with Asperger's Syndrome, Aric Clark's defense of the passionate Mainline, Dianna Anderson's explanation of what feminism is not, and Registered Runaway's heartbreaking post about what happened when his father learned he was gay.

Buried somewhere in the top news stories of the day — «U.S. Marine Pens Response to Gun Control Bill,» «Cat Arrested at Brazil Prison,» «Father of India Gang Rape Victim Reveals His Daughter's Name,» «Candlelight Vigil Planned in Boulder for Slain Bull Elk» — you might have read about Hobby Lobby.

Here is a story about a young man in my area who came from a upper middle class home, mother and father married, never divorced.

See, that's what I mean by muddled... you humans took a little story, mixed it with some myths from earlier religions and decided I was this all powerful god with an all powerful father (that supposedly turns hair on the head as well as beards white if you look at him) that cared about each and everyone of you.

Id agree with you, except that even today theres a story about a Muslim actress from the Harry Potter movies being beaten by her father and brothers for the sin of — having a boyfriend.

He «found a woman with whom he felt able to be completely open about himself» — and this not long after the Narnia stories, in which Lewis finally made his peace with the loss of his mother and his alienation from his father.

I heard a story on a podcast about a daughter who asked her father lots of questions.

The final story in Luke 15, found in verses 11 - 32, is about a father who has two sons.

Jesus tells a story about a son who asks for his inheritance before his father has even died.

And who can forget the stories about meals: the Great Banquet at which the outsiders become insiders, the big bash which the father threw for the prodigal son when he returned home?

In Jesus story, the separated son was capable of realising what was good and what his predicament was, the separated son had an idea in his mind about the way to go to return to his father.

Sam Worthington (Avatar, Terminator Salvation, MacBeth, Clash of the Titans) stars in the story about a grieving father investigating the death of his young daughter at an abandoned shack in the woods.

The Bible is not about conveying divine principles for starting and managing a Christian business — but is instead about Christ on the cross triumphing over all principalities and powers and so radically transforming everything we consider to be our business... Scripture then ceases to about teaching about biblical manhood and womanhood or biblical motherhood and fatherhood — and becomes instead the story of how a covenant - making and promise - keeping God took on full human personhood in Jesus Christ in order to reconcile this alienated and wrecked world to the eternally gracious Father.»