I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.
When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.
My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.
I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
My parents have always told me to work hard. My father was a friend, a very good friend, but when he needed to be a father, he was.
To make a movie is very stressful, especially when you work with your father. You want to think the movie is good. Even when I don't work with my father, I want it to be good.
Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.
Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in his image. We have inherited divine characteristics from him.
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.
In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me.
When I was growing up, I never really knew my father. I didn't get to know my father until I was about 14 years old.
My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.
After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons.
I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
'My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes.
The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he tries to shoot any of the stags, their antlers will tear him to pieces.
Embrace nothing: If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. If you meet your father, kill your father. Only live your life as it is, Not bound to anything.
