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.

As I was growing up, you know, I’m a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother’s family had fled the czars of Russia before that.

Oh, my father, such a difficult man.His world turned on his axis.From “The Father Tamer” in BREATHE IN

I went to visit my dad. He didn’t say a word to me. Or if he did, I couldn’t hear it through the grass, the dirt, and his coffin lid.

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

I think by my father owning a store, I was definitely aware of the commercial aspect of selling clothes. His shop was a place I enjoyed spending time in as a boy, so I learned...

A whore Ailean may have been, but a loving, caring whore who adored his offspring and mate.

I couldn’t have pulled it off if you hadn’t have pulled out all those years ago. So thanks, dad.

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.

My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing.

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole...