My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intelligence, he always thought that I was a little bit lazy.
I believe my father has and always will be the strongest influence in my life, as he has guided me on many paths.
With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.
As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.
There is nothing more important in my life than being a father. I will never allow any of my career choices or aspirations to threaten this bond.
My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.
I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.
When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.
I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.
My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.
My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children.
For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.
I was always falling in and out of love. I was engaged when I was 16 to the first guy I ever dated, but my father told him I was too young.
My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.
My father and I used to watch movies all the time. That was our bonding time, so that's when I kind of fell in love with acting.
I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.
I am Quinn's father. I will do everything in my power to provide her with the love and support she deserves.
We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.
