A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. “She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. She stamped her little foot at me.”He pointed down to her toes as if she were...

Two blades clashed, ringing like a bell. Like all small boys, Philip thought his father was invincible; and this was the moment when he learned the truth.

I have the legacy of my father and his nocturnal automatic waking up. But I like those periods. I immediately have a different vision of humanity and my life.

Damn straight.” My heart feels like one of Scottie’s clogs clomping down the hall. I don’t know why I became so angry.

It is the duty of every father… to write fairy tales for his children.

While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.

My father went to work every day, and it’s my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won’t be so good, but I have to go to work.

The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite.

My Dad has been a feminist, way before I learnt how to spell the word.

I think one of the sweetest proofs we have of the Father’s loving care for us is that we often find in this life the things which gave us great happiness below.

I decided I would go with them, but it would be at my father’s house that I would eat. I would share his food, and his poverty.

Was it too much to expect the rest of the world to care about grammar or pay attention to details?

I see my father. I see him gone away. My world is a little bit colder.

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn’t pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the...

If there’s no relationship with a father who’s absent, nobody talks about it.

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

Kolonia Santita imesambaa dunia nzima. Hapa Meksiko wana magenge rafiki zaidi ya mia moja yakiwemo makubwa kabisa katika Latino ya Matamolos na Baja California. Nikitekwa nyara na memba yoyote wa magenge hayo, kuna uwezekano mkubwa...

I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.

My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year we stole a case of butterscotch pudding that was for...

Good parents use the mistakes they did in the past when they were young to advice the children God gave to them to prevent them from repeating those mistakes again. However, bad parents always want...

The question is not “can you wear your father’s shoes?”. The question is “can you walk in your father’s shoes?”. It is one thing having a mentor and it is another thing to become like...

I think my wife understood from the day I met her how important she was to me and how important it was for me becoming a husband and a father.

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like...

But I got through the review, for all their Latin and French; I did, and if you doubt me, you just look at the end of the great ledger, turn it upside down, and you’ll...

One can’t carry one’s father’s corpse about everywhere.

My father always said, ‘Malala will be free as a bird.’

I figured this staying up meant something. Maybe it was loss or love or some other word that we say when it’s too fucking late but the boys weren’t into melodrama. They heard that shit...

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

A man after God’s own heart is…a man who yearns to please God,a man who desires to grow spiritually,a man who had a heart that obeys.

Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot,’ billed as ‘the laugh sensation of two continents,’ made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one...

But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.

I will not be my father’s dog.

Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical...

I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still alive. I pretended not to notice.

New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won’t hit Charles’s mate in front of his father.

I think we all live dichotomies. I’m a father of three boys and a loyal homebody sort of husband and father. And yet I act in movies and write and direct movies.

What do you know about somebody not being good enough for somebody else? And since when did you care whether Corinthians stood up or fell down? You’ve been laughing at us all your life. Corinthians....

My life has been like a battlefield, a war that could never be won unless I had her with me, and the day she died my battlefront stepped down and threw away their shields, allowing...

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.

We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to have a black partner, so I grew up very aware of the struggle going on. Coming...

What do you want?”She doesn’t answer him, staring cold and blank through those stark white bars, and then she was scrambling toward him across the floor, making him press flat against the wall to get...

I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My father made three important choices that day: He listened to me,...

The children we bring into the world are small replicas of ourselves and our husbands; the pride and joy of grandfathers and grandmothers. We dream of being mothers, and for most of us that dreams...

Oh, my wife is a wonderful cook. She comes from a food-loving Italian family – her father owned a pizzeria!

I stand and feel an overpowering urge to forgive, because I realize that my father can’t help himself, that he never could help himself, any more than he could understand himself.

Moses is our true founding father.

If you’re not seeing God at the climax, it’s not worth doing. Sex is the bridge that connects heaven and earth.