James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
I could feel the hard part of Mom very strongly that time. It was like a stone in her that grew bigger every time my father lost his temper, right under her heart. Feeling the stone in her calmed me down. It told me that she would always be there for...
Sir Arthur grimaced. He hated violence - perhaps his father ingrained that into him. But he still fought, for principle and for father's legacy. Now that legacy meant the protection of defenseless women. There were a few Persians in the way to execut...
God is a father, happiness is a stepfather.
The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.
Rita: Now, Ms. Cossell, in all the time that you've known them, have you ever questioned Sam's ability as a father? Annie: Never. Rita: Never? Annie: Never. Look at Lucy. She's strong. She displays true empathy for people, all kinds of people. I know...
[Father Flynn enters Sister Aloysius' room, looking very nervous] Father Brendan Flynn: [nervously] May I come in? Sister Aloysius Beauvier: [not looking at him] A third party would be required. Father Brendan Flynn: Look, what was Donald's mother do...
Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father.
In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all.
Pinocchio: [looking for Geppetto, who has been swallowed by Monstro the whale] Father! Jiminy Cricket: Father! Huh? He ain't *my* father. Uh, Mr. Geppetto!
How can you be a 'Former-Father'? Is it possible to be a father but, because someone or something is determined to illegalize it, being a father becomes a thing of the past? Should you simply consign yourself to be effectively dead to your living chi...
Children have a hair of their father.
A father is a banker provided by nature.
Boredom is the father of all sins.
Karma is the mother and karma is the father.
Like father, like son.
The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often see...
My father told me never to take my foot off a ladder to kick at someone who was kicking at me. When I did that, I would no longer be climbing. While they are kicking, my father told me, I should keep stepping. They can kick only one time. If I contin...
[about a bum on a park bench] Ann: Every time I see one of those old guys, I always think the same thing. Mark: What do you think? Ann: I always think that he was once somebody's baby boy. Really, I do. I think he was once somebody's baby boy, and he...
