How true, lamentably true. I’m sorry, Father. I do not…

I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung…

— William Shakespeare

- Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself. - But your yourself sucks! - It is, lamentably, all I have.

— Junot Diaz

I am sorry I could not see my father.

— Leon Czolgosz

I lower my eyes and I can't face you , I'm sorry my father , but plz love me still because I need you.

— Laylablack

“Err, sorry Father Abbot. I tripped y'see. Trod on my Abbot, Father Habit. Oh dear, I mean…”

— Brian Jacques

“I don’t know. We all have to bear things, Ari. All of us. Your father has to bear the war and what it did…

— Anonymous

The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out…

— Jacques Roumain

I guess, it's a father's dream for his daughter to be known around the world.

— Liza Soberano

My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast.…

— Katie Melua

“My father called twice and left a voicemail—who does that?”

— Megan Erickson

My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used…

— Don McLean

My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives…

— Chris Chibnall

(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and…

— Elizabeth Zimmermann

Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I…

— Teddy Atlas

Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been…

— John Denver