Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a...

I just wish I could understand my father.

I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don’t have that role model to teach you how to do things.

My father’s Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home.

For Sayonara, literally translated, ‘Since it must be so,’ of all the good-bys I have heard is the most beautiful. Unlike the Auf Wiedershens and Au revoirs, it does not try to cheat itself by...

The way Magnus’ breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he’d said his father’s name.

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking...

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.

self-leader” is the positively influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You must be able to lead yourself before you can lead others.

I think people like to think I’m in some way financially dependent on my family – on my dad – but the fact of the matter is I’ve been emancipated from my father since I...

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.

My two parents represent the single greatest influence on my life. And if my dad had been there for me, it would be the double greatest influence on my life.

When I felt rather overcome with my father’s opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers’ education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.

The memory slowly faded away. I could feel tears strolling down my snout from my eyes. I missed my father… He did what he could to save me that day.

My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.

I was born in St. Louis; I lived there for three weeks and then my father graduated from St. Louis University, so we all got in the car and split. I don’t really remember much....

A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn’t: my past.

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with...

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our...

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

You don’t know your father, do you?”I shook my head. “No. All I know is he must have had wicked cool hair.”Dimitri glanced up, and his eyes swept me. “Yes. He must have.

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I...

Finding the FatherMy friend, this body offers to carry us for nothing– as the ocean carries logs. So on some days the body wails with its great energy; it smashes up the boulders, lifting small...

My father was a very difficult man.

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

My father instilled in me – of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself – to define God, to define holiness for myself.

My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn’t be a dame.

My father’s a character.

Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same.

I always saw myself as really ugly. My father even told me I was ugly because I would shave my head and look like a boy.

My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don’t know him at all. I had no male figures in my life, really. I had my godfather, but he’s more like...

I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

I’d had a French education for three years, my father being in the army. From 9 to 12, I went to French school. I’ve been sort of part of the culture, part of the geography,...

Personally, I think knees should be kept for the eight or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice surprise, you know? ‘Oh, my darling, you have knees! I never would have thought!

In life or death situations, my father has only been there once for me. So I’d like to tell him thanks for not pulling out when I needed him the most: conception.

My father said this to me: “Israelmore, if you don’t make any impact on earth, you will die before you die. But if you impress hearts with what you do, you still live even after...

That night, when the creature sleeps, when he sleeps, the mother escapes into her daughters’ room. She tells her daughter that the creature’s afraid of her having too much love, too much heart. She takes...

I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It’s in my blood.

Meow.

When I was a deacon, my father took me and my older brother to general priesthood meeting in the Tabernacle. I remember how thrilled I was to be in the presence, for the first time,...

My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.

Where much is given, much is required. Our Heavenly Father asks His daughters to walk in virtue, to live in righteousness so that we can fulfill our life’s mission and His purposes. He wants us...