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...

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...

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...

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.