I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.
Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.
I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.
I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.
There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.
As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.
I see myself being a father, hopefully a husband, but I'm very gun-shy. The older I get, the further the goalpost.
Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.
I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.
As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.
There were days when my father didn't have money for food, and we slept hoping the next day something could be got from work.
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.
My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'
We actually have a small family. It's just my father and I and my grandmother, who lives in Tokyo. I cherish my friendships.
Oh, my wife is a wonderful cook. She comes from a food-loving Italian family - her father owned a pizzeria!
My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.
My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.
For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend.
