We would be in each other's lives again. No, he hadn't been the best father, but he was my father, and we loved each other. We needed each other. Though he'd disappointed me countless times through the years, life had already proven too short for me ...
I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, a...
Ben Thomas: The first time I ever saw a box jellyfish, I was twelve. Our father took us to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. I never forgot what he said... That it was the most deadly creature on earth. To me it was just the most beautiful thing I'd ever se...
He was her father after all. True, a father whose funeral rite she planned to dance at and toast with ale, but her father just the same.
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.
I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.
I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.
Pinocchio: [having been 'fished' up into the boat by Geppetto] Hey, Father! Father! Geppetto: Don't bother me now, Pinocchio! [then he realizes] Geppetto: What? Pinocchio? Pinocchio: Father! Geppetto: Pinocchio!
Roughly a month into my stay in jail, I began the first of twelve letters. The choice of titles had much to do with my reason (or circumstances) for being incarcerated: I was a parent of a past-marriage; and though the courts had dissolved the marria...
Mean fathers, wasteful sons.
If the father is a frog, the son will be a frog.
A mother is gold, a father is a mirror.
The father a saint, the son a sinner.
Covetousness is the father of unfulfilled desires.
My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.
I have a Father's Day every day.
My dad's not a very intimidating father figure.
My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.
I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.
I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
