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.

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life...

Oh, sorry. I’m not . . . uh . . . interrupting something that will make me uncomfortable, am I?

I never knew my father. I saw him at a party once, but he never walked over and introduced himself to me.

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on ‘Dreams From My Father,’ was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

My parents always swore that in my childhood they had to let me win at board games. If, by the lucky stroke of the plastic wheel, my father would accidentally beat me at Candy Land,...

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

Ugly and ungainly. The least dependable creature you ever met. Just when you think you understand her, she changes. If only I had a son,” he said bitterly.Over and over he disparaged her, and George...

In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.

You don’t need to be primary caregiver of your children to be of primary influence in their lives. What you do for them behind the scenes in your own unique way is what makes the...

The hospital will have ointments and ice,” she says.

I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.

The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie was an unexpected, unplanned pop culture phenomena. My father went from star-maker to star.

My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father’s office.

Sadie,” he said forlornly, “when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own...

Behind every successful man is a woman but few of us realize that behind most successful women is a man too; her father.

To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less than His children. For every father must discipline His children, and paternal discipline is itself...

A man worth being with is one…That never lies to youIs kind to people that have hurt himA person that respects another’s lifeThat has manners and shows people respectThat goes out of his way to...

I was the youngest of nine siblings… I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods.

I want to do a lot more roles like I did in ‘This Is My Father,’

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.

In retrospect, it seems obvious that my research about parenting was also a means to subdue my anxieties about becoming a parent…. I grew up afraid of illness and disability, inclined to avert my gaze...

Our Father Who Art in Heaven gathered more meaning for me as my own father joined the Maker when I was still in school.

George Burns was the father I never had.

My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity – great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay...

Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers and boys used to dress like their fathers. Now girls drink like their fathers and boys dress like their mothers.

First memory: a man at the back door is saying, I have real bad news, sweat is dripping off his face, Garbert’s been shot, noise from my mother, I run to her room behind her,...

You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking for your product. That is influence; self-made leaders do not look for followers....

Father of four. I like the sound of that.

Sounds have smells. Your father smells, and he’s noisy.

I kill things…and eat them.” Axel Reid

He’s only two years younger, but that doesn’t mean I’m not old enough to be his father. I grew up fast. Ah, but that’s life, no?

I feel that through my father’s music I’ve found my own voice in my own playing.

I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.

Your Heavenly Father will help you find the right path as you seek His guidance. Remember though, after you pray you must get off your knees and start doing something positive; head in the right...

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.

My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.

The amount of time we give to something indicates it’s importance to us.

From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest.Darkness, you know,...

‘Scarface,’ I remember going to see that with my father. We didn’t know what to expect; we did not know what to expect. I was a kid, and my father took me, and we didn’t...

I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-“”The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl.” He sounds bitter and sad.”If the world will not forgive me,” I say softly, “I...

The biggest problem was convincing my father that organic food was worth eating. All he could think of was the nut loaf with yeast gravy that my mother made in the Seventies.

There will always be competition, especially in showbiz. There’s always someone younger and hungrier standing behind you; there’s always someone with more contacts; there’s always someone whose grandfather or father is a filmmaker. I think...

If I marry: He must be so tall that when he is on his knees, as one has said he reaches all the way to heaven. His shoulders must be broad enough to bear the...

My father was a bullfighter.

My father passed away in 2002, but yes, we were pretty close. I loved him a lot.