The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.

When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one.

Before I proposed to my now-wife, I was understandably nervous. My father suggested that I take stock of all of my experiences and relationships with women, from my earliest memories to present day, and see...

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

God is the only book that can never be touched, open and seen.

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn’t very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

She’ll think we’re going on a trip of some sort. I want to get her away from here.

Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.

I got an A on the third quiz in American history, an A, dammit. Last time I got a Bup from a Cand my father said,”if you can get a Cyou can get a B,if...

My lessons didn’t come at my father’s knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.

Mendacity is a system that we live in,” declares Brick. “Liquor is one way out an’death’s the other.

I am very close to my family. I have learned a lot from my father. He used to tell me to be honest with yourself and not to argue with your seniors. You don’t need...

It’s not like you’re becoming a born-again Christian or teetotal or an accountant or something you can stop being after a while. You’ll never not be a father now.”It feels great, Rob’ he said. ‘Just...

By the time I reached high school my father’s grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in...

Your father doesn’t fucking play games. you would never come home with a shamrock tattoo in that house.

Honestly, I wish I could be a part of all the remakes of my father’s films. But on second thought, I wouldn’t want to be a part of any. The thought of being compared to...

..my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn’t understand me. The town he lived in and the town I lived in were not the...

You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque.

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It’s never an issue for me.

Tough times don’t define you, they refine you. ‪

Every Autumn now my thoughts return to snow. Snow is something I identify myself with. Like my father, I am a snow person.

My mother went to university, my father didn’t. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he’s worldly.

If you’re male, and you’re Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career.

A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

I’m 30-years-old, and I still can’t get out from under my father’s shadow. He’s really tall, so maybe I’ll just ask him to move over a few feet.

We need to get to the heart of each heart issue—and we can’t do it. Only the Maker can. The world needs #Jesus.

I’m halfway to being a father. Not 4.5 months out of 9, but , of a mating ritual.

Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father’s responsibility, and duty then counted for...

In Jacksonville, there are more childrenless children than fatherless children. Barely. But that’s one bad thing that’s actually a good thing.

Dad will come back,’ said Charlie quietly.When Mrs Bone turned to him, she didn’t look sad at all, in fact she was smiling. ‘You know, Charlie, I’m beginning to believe you,’ she said. ‘After what...

Grateful daughters of God guard their bodies carefully, for they know they are the wellsprings of life, and they reverence life. They don’t uncover their bodies to find favor with the world. They walk in...

I talk to my kids about my mother’s energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that...

The problem is not Hamas, the problem is not people. The root of the problem is Islam itself as an idea, as an idea. And about Hamas as an organization, of course, the Hamas leadership,...

Our physical body knows it cannot function without physical water. So, too, our spiritual life should realize that it can’t function without the “living water” of Gods Word.

I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father’s waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the...

It’s obviously a tough situation, … I would imagine going through the Minor Leagues in an organization where your father is the pitching coach, you probably have a little more stress or a little more...

I’m bored,” she said.”Learn how to tap-dance,” he suggested, without turning around.

There were a few other moves of his father’s he could do without as well – the sucker punches, the ruffling of the hair, the way of pronouncing the word son, in a slightly deeper...

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before—simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he...

My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.

One night when we were lying under the stars together she pointed to this beaming bright star beside the moon and said wherever she was in the world, whether we were together or apart, that...

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.

{Miller, who was president of American Federation of Musicians, had this to say about Robert Ingersoll at his funeral}On behalf of 15,000 professional musicians, comprising the American Federation of Musicians, permit me to extend to...

A lot of people don’t realize this, but probably the one person that gets made fun of in ‘South Park’ more than anybody is my dad. Stan’s father, Randy – my dad’s name is Randy...

Just as I had done, my father sleeps off and on for days. Sometimes I sit by the bed in Marta’s house and stare at him until I feel like it isn’t a dream anymore....

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don’t think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.