It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
When my father was assassinated, I decided that I would not compete with his memory, but the priority would be to achieve his dream.
I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
Is there something in my genetic makeup that makes me more at risk for heart disease? I believe there is. My father was the sign.
When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.
Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'
My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.
A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations.
When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.
I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son.
father taught me that the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? If it’s not one of those three, it’s best not to say it
Every child of Heavenly Father born in the world is given at birth, as a free gift, the Light of Christ.
My mother never married my father. She was married to and divorced from another man, then she married and divorced my stepfather and then, ultimately, they ended up getting back together.
As a chef and as a father, I am very upset by what's on the menu at most schools: chicken nuggets and tater tots and ketchup and pizza.
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.
I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.
I'm always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I'm a proud father.
I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that.
I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.
