My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth.
Fathers, your are the head and strength of the family unit. If you are not in place, there is a weakness in the link.
am i insane" asked alice "yes, but all the best people are" replied her father
James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.
My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.
It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember that you're a father and a grandfather... and that they're entitled to more than they're getting.
The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.
Dychwelyd i wlad eich hynafiaid; gwaed yn galw i waed. Return to the land of your fathers; blood calls to blood.
My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world.
When a woman miscarries, the experience of the father is often forgotten. But men grieve pregnancy loss too...
I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
I think my father had a lot of anti-establishment in him. He came through the '60s.
The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world.
Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
Throughout my journey in basketball, I always have someone to talk to in my father. I know how hard he had to work as an athlete.
It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister.
He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.
There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is.
Father to teenage son: "My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you.
