I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

My father was born in Amsterdam in a highly religious family. He was in Amsterdam, and he went into hiding right near where Anne Frank was. He was a theoretical physicist and the last Jew...

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

He doesn’t have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He’s a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the most part.

My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.

The wisest man may be a blind father.

When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over...

My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a ‘Dear Murph’ letter...

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

Be more than a father, be a dad. Be more than a figure, be an example.

I’ve never been desperate to please my father.

My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.

When I was a child, an angel came to say,A true friend is coming my warrior to sweep you away,It won’t be easy the path because it leads through hell,But if you’re faithful, it will...

My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the...

I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth than anyone I know.

My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.

Jesus is more interested in your heart than your ministry.

I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a child’s ideal companion, full of surprises and happy animal energy. He enjoyed food and drink. He liked to try new...

The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of...

Perfect!” Wrath bellowed. “And this is a doctor saying it — I mean, she went to medical school.”…”And Dr. Sam told me she’s delivered over fifteen thousand babies over the course of her career —...

I had no particular desire to be a personality like my father, nor was I equipped to be one. I was determined to be my own man, although having the Fairbanks name did make it...

You can’t be perfect. You can’t be the perfect father. You can’t be the perfect singer.

It rains on everyone. It may be storming but there is a covering.Life may be challenging, but there is a covering.It may seem impossible, hopeless, doubtful, fear-ridden, and pain-laden, but there is a covering. There...

My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, he became a father figure to me. I would have done anything for my...

In 1949 – my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai....

My dad was born poor, made a fortune during his life, and then died suddenly—murdered by his only son, leaving his vast estate to a daughter I didn’t know he had.

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Rationalizing him and the glass pipe, Dad smoked crack, but he was not a crackhead; it was just something he did. To do something didn’t define you, I thought.I saw Dad through a dusty lens...

I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy them individually, but also the entire book as a whole.

Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires

I was brought up in a Christian home in Australia with a father who was very bold about his faith.

I buried my father in my heart.Now he grows in me, my strange son, my little root who won’t drink milk, little pale foot sunk in unheard-of night, little clock spring newly wetin the fire,...

Deal.

My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in Montana. That helped broaden my palate generally, but I know it informed my distaste for...

Yaicha and Darren told me that I wasthe mailman’s child,and I got so angry,stalking away,hot steam in my ribs.Yaicha and Darrentold me that I was the mailman’s childand now I am thinkinghow wonderful it would...

I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’. He played my father on ‘Becker,’ and he’s still one of my heroes. Along...

He knows that if his father had been a different man, or his mother another women, he would have been the same. He would have lived all his years the same way. They played no...

My father was in the army, and there wasn’t too much money. Yet, we learnt to enjoy the small pleasures of life, to look at the positives.

I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.

It’s been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds...

(Don Fey had a large rubber stamp that said “bullshit,” which was and is awesome.)

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now – my greatest achievement period is – and I’m still trying to achieve it – is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

I’m from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I was kid, we would go back east and catch Yankees games. His side of the family are...

One of the things my father taught me was you should not exclude those who are opposed to your ideas.

A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remains as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.