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

Her father sat her down and spoke to her with great seriousness. “You are not a witch, Katerina. There is magic in the world, and some of it is wholesome, and some of it is...

The activity of being a husband, a father – those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that’s what’s most important.

Jeeter?” Grace whispered into her walkie-talkie. “Are you awake?” She waited.A few weeks ago, she and Jeeter had started chatting on their walkie-talkies late at night when she couldn’t sleep. He always answered her call...

Xavier, you have given me more grey hairs than all my sons put together.’ Saul frowned, then corrected himself. ‘To be fair, you and Zed. Just try not to add to them tonight.

My father taught me the values in my childhood which I follow till now and its the foundation he laid on which I build my building of my Life.

I met Roy’s father once… And I think that Roy’s relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day, he’s trying to prove himself...

For me, it’s not just about blessing my generation, I’ve done that already, I also have to be a father to the fatherless.

I didn’t want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.

My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots.

George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class – Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we’re at it, his father, George H. W. ‘Poppy’ Bush, was...

I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army was still in Austria. I grew...

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

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...

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...

{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.