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“I met my wife [Sukhinder Kaur Gill] in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a great old term, 'courting’. And we had to do it quietly, of course, because you would know the difficulties one might have with Indian parents. She was advised by her father that people in the West don't take marriage seriously.”

People Knows Years Might Three Courses Father Parent Term Wife Mets Function Difficulty West My Wife Indian Officials Three Years Bombay

Author:Glenn Turner

“[My father] impressed upon me from the first, that the manner in which the world came into existence was a subject on which nothing was known: that the question, "Who made me?" cannot be answered, because we have no experience or authentic information from which to answer it; and that any answer only throws the difficulty a step further back, since the question immediately presents itself, "Who made God?”

World Firsts Made Father Answers Existence Known Steps Subjects Information Difficulty Impressed

Book:Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography

Source: Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography

“Many now veer away from the time-honored use of the term Father as applied to the Christian God ... This difficulty rests mainly, I believe, on failure to distinguish between a symbol and a definition.”

Believe God Use Christian Father I Believe Term Difficulty Definitions Symbols Honored Christian God

Author:Georgia Harkness

“I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.”

Father Destruction Difficulty Bankruptcy

Author:Brendan Coyle

“I have a very hyper-sensitive sister, and when she saw in the papers the next day that I had proclaimed myself the daughter of an immigrant, she didn't like it at all, and was with difficulty deterred from writing to the press that my father might be an immigrant, but not hers.”

Writing Might Next Father Saws Paper Daughter Difficulty Presses Sensitive Immigrants Next Day Papers Hyper

Author:Margaret Case Harriman

“I don't think for this generation, but for my generation and my father's generation, men had difficulty in accessing emotion and then being able to talk about it.”

Thinking Men Able Father Emotion Generations Difficulty My Generation This Generation

Author:Liam Neeson