Father Quotes
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Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
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I'm a man that's unique to the world. That's kind of the star I was born under - on the cusp of Capricorn and Aquarius. My mother is Irish-American, and my father is Afro-Panamanian, so it's kind of been the story of my life to be a bridge between different cultures and different styles, and musically, that's between jazz and R&B.
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My children are now adults and just kind of guide them while they allow you to have input in their lives without controlling them the way you did when they were toddlers. These are good steps to use for fathers at each step of their children's lives.
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It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.
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My mother - who's from Iowa - owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father's a developer. And my musical influences, I think, came from my father's side of the family.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.
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I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'
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I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.
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Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.
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My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
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When I remember my mother, it makes me really sad. But, when I remember my father, it makes me smile.
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My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.
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All the embroidery is made in my father's workshop in India... and all the cutting and sewing is done in my studio.
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I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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If father and daughter can manage to cross the finish line of her emancipation together- she accepting Daddy's flaws, he viewing hers as opportunities for her to learn and grow- the ups and downs of their relationship and mutual growth can prepare her for the ambiguities of life. The example of the father weathering his own emotional seasons can help the daughter weather her own.
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My mother's incredible diaries, which she'd written from when she was 21, and even before that. She fell in love with my father when she was 12.
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Within the walls of our own homes, we can and should bear pure testimony of the divinity and reality of the Father and the Son, of the great plan of happiness, and of the Restoration.
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
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I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.
