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And there was my father, standing with me outside, admiring a day's work, hair on his head, fully in remission, when he turned to me and he said, "You know, Michael, this house saved my life."
He is a father, a husband, a son, a poet.
This is my father, Zvi, in our winery in Israel.
My father had encouraged my sister and I to pursue our education even though our culture emphasized at the time that it was sons and not daughters who should be professionally motivated.
My father didn't have a son, and so I, in a sense, became his.
Fast-forward a couple of decades, and I hope I didn't do too badly in making my father proud of his would-be son.
As I look to the future, my hopes for my daughter when she stands on this stage some 20, 30 years from now are that she be as proud to call herself her mother's daughter as her father's daughter.
My father found that in a junkyard, and was able to repair it and make it work.
They were tough in the sense that, as I grew up, both my mother and father would always say to me, it's really important that you always remember two things.
And on my wedding day, my father came to me again and said, "You know, I'm going to remind you again, that each generation has to do better than the last one.
And then a few years later, I had a child, my first child, and again, my father comes to the hospital, and we're looking at the glass, and see all the children on the other side, and he said, "I've got to remind you again, that for each generation to do better, you're going to have to be a better father than I was."
That's when it dawned on me the tremendous challenge that he was placing on me, because he was a great father.
We have the honor and pleasure of Jonathan and his father joining us here today.
The real explanation involves the man who became Canada's leader in 1968, Pierre Trudeau, who is also the father of the current prime minister.
Now, if necessity is the mother of invention, I've come to believe that recession can be the father of consciousness.
He actually took his braces off himself with pliers in the garage, when his father admitted he didn't have money to go back to the orthodontist.
Maybe you're a mediocre earner but a masterful father.
Anna was born in 1083, shortly after her father seized control of the Roman Empire following a decade of brutal civil wars and revolts.
As her father aged, Anna and her husband helped her parents with their imperial duties.
She began working on the Alexiad, which made the case for her father's merits as emperor.
While her loyalty to her father was evident in her favorable account of his reign, she also included criticism and her opinions of events.
Her father explained to her that fish swim by quickly wagging their tails to propel themselves through the water.
Athena's father grew up in the West Bank and moved to Chicago, where he met her mother.
One of the first contributions we had was from a woman called Nikki, who described growing up, being molested my her own father.
One of the great things was that my father was an avid golfer, but he was lefty.
My father is a doctor, and so we had a great advantage having him in charge, and he did a beautiful job taking care of her.
My brothers, sister, and father and I all came together in this supportive and attentive way.
My father was an academic, and we were in the UK through his work.
After the War of Independence, my father was put in prison for two and a half years, and I used to visit him every week in prison, and homeschooled myself.
My father was released in 1973 and he fled to England as a refugee, and we soon followed him.
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