My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.
My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.
He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.
Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.
Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.
When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.
My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.
People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.
My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.
My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
If you don't like your sister or don't get along with your father, let's find out if you like yourself. Let's not sugarcoat anything about it.
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.
All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.
My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.
Since the beginning, a woman's first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of our Father in Heaven.
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
