I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remains as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.
No doubt, a father he is the most respected man in our lives, the most admired person. He is the protector, and the guardian of our lives.
When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot.
I am half Scottish. My father is an expat from Glasgow, and on my mother's side there's a bit of French, a bit of Scottish, a bit of Irish.
I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.
[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.
Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she was delivering a speech there.
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.
When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw something happening with the audience.
My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and my parents are the most extraordinary father and mother.
It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.
My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way
O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.
All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.
So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.
