Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.
My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.
Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.
My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.
I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.
This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
My mother - who's from Iowa - owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father's a developer. And my musical influences, I think, came from my father's side of the family.
I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.
My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.
I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in his image. We have inherited divine characteristics from him.
Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity.
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me.
When I was growing up, I never really knew my father. I didn't get to know my father until I was about 14 years old.
My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.
After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons.
