He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
For years I thought my father was a hunchback. Turns out he didn't know suspenders were adjustable. — Bill Kelly Copy Share Image
I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language,… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I had my daughter in 2013, we moved to L.A. and there's just lots of things that were happening that were feeding… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
For Christ plays in ten thousand places,/ Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/ To the Father through the features… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
There are two different ways of writing a novel. The first I call the traditional father way, when the novelist slightly situates… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
When I was 7, I told my dad I want to have a house like Micheal Jackson's one. And then he said… — Cristiano Ronaldo Copy Share Image
If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
“Even now, I found it difficult to believe that my father could or might be dying. He had always been a strong… — Ann Marston Copy Share Image
My great-grandfather, Peter O'Hara, was born in Ireland, I believe, in County Clare. His father, my great-great-grandfather, had actually come to America… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
When my sister and I came along, my father's political life was completely over. He ran for president the year I was… — Anne Cox Chambers Copy Share Image
“Fathers who consider themselves as the best father of their children are often the worst father in the eyes of their children.… — Fahad Basheer Copy Share Image
The child in me could not die as it should have died, because according too legends it must find its father again.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In fact if you're a mother or a father, you're filled with oxytocin when you have a child. It makes you love… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“You are old, Father William,' the young man said, 'And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
The thing is, I used to like that: feeling special because I knew something no one else did. It's a kind of… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Becoming a father is easy; being a father is hard. But the most demanding job is the most rewarding. Happy Father's Day! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father was the first entrepreneur in the family. He started his own record label, his own restaurant. He knew that, in… — Rohan Marley Copy Share Image
Work is a great thing. This is something my father taught me. He didn't want me to grow up to be somebody's… — Giovanna Cau Copy Share Image
I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
Some say Christianity is just a crutch. But let's turn the question on its edge for a moment. Is atheism an emotional… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me. — Novak Djokovic Copy Share Image
I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious. — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
Luckily for me, my father had impeccable taste. No contemporary collector was he. His treasure trove of comics included gems such as… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
While my mother is from Jammu, my father was originally from Afghanistan, as my grandfather was the governor of five provinces there,… — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
If I wasn't a footballer, I definitely would have been a chauffer because that is my father's profession and he's a person… — Pepe Copy Share Image
This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
Born in 1910, Wilfrid Thesiger spent his childhood in Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, as it was then called, where his father was an… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
My father worked every day; my brother and sister had to travel many hours to study, so Atletico were for people like… — Fernando Torres Copy Share Image
Sexual desire declines after four to seven years. That's been proven.Because it's the most compatible with our spiritual origins. Father, mother, small… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
I think being the girl of such a huge father figure, you want to be that tomboy... because you are so close… — Brooke Hogan Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of being from 'somewhere else.' I do think that's inherited. My father never had a fixed sense of… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
“I’d like you to come to Kauai with me,” I say. “And Scottie. I think it would be good to get her… — Kaui Hart Hemmings Copy Share Image
Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
