He was her father after all. True, a father whose funeral rite she planned to dance at and toast with ale, but her father just the same.
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.
I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.
I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.
Pinocchio: [having been 'fished' up into the boat by Geppetto] Hey, Father! Father! Geppetto: Don't bother me now, Pinocchio! [then he realizes] Geppetto: What? Pinocchio? Pinocchio: Father! Geppetto: Pinocchio!
Roughly a month into my stay in jail, I began the first of twelve letters. The choice of titles had much to do with my reason (or circumstances) for being incarcerated: I was a parent of a past-marriage; and though the courts had dissolved the marria...
Rayon: [looking at picture of Ray's father and sister together] She looks great. I guess I didn't make the cut. Rayon's Father: You made that choice yourself. Rayon: It wasn't a choice, Dad. Rayon's Father: What do you want, Raymond? Rayon: Oh, I'm f...
Mean fathers, wasteful sons.
If the father is a frog, the son will be a frog.
A mother is gold, a father is a mirror.
The father a saint, the son a sinner.
Covetousness is the father of unfulfilled desires.
My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.
I have a Father's Day every day.
My dad's not a very intimidating father figure.
My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.
I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.
I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
I saw behind me those who had gone, and before me, those who are to come. I looked back and saw my father, and his father, and all our fathers, and in front, to see my son, and his son, and the sons upon sons beyond. And their eyes were my eyes. As I...
A faraway-father is distant from his children; not necessarily in geography, but socially—either by choice or by force. Our country has many fathers who are figuratively-forced far and away from their families. Legal force brings to bear disparate ...
