My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
As a former Governor, and more importantly, as a father, I know all too well how protective elected officials are of the special relationships they have with their children.
One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.
My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.
I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.
I knew your father before you did, and I don't think he'd be too proud of what you're doing right now.
Dear my brothers there is no more room for wanting to be a thug, BUT there is PLENTY of room for being a father, lawyer, doctor and a teacher. Please take this in consideration!
When my father died, I was living in England. It was very traumatic that he died when I was away.
When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never.
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.
My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.
The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.
I have to prioritize: father first, and then a pastor and a recording artist and entrepreneur. I try to put everything in proper perspective, and then the proper priority.
Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child
Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.
I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.
My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!
I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died.
