The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.
As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.
The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.
I tell people I'm a stand-up comedian two hours a week. The rest of the time, I'm somebody's husband, I'm somebody's father. I'm a man. I take great pride in that.
The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.
I have an evolving relationship with my father, and his memory, especially the older I get. I know that some of the things that interested him are things that interest me.
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
There are no expectations other than those I place on myself to be a great father and husband.
It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
I don't think I'll be playing again. I'm very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven't gotten to do, be a father.
The great thing that I appreciate - the fact that my godfather, William 'Sticky' Jackson, was a Tuskegee Airman because my father was first born in Ozark, Alabama. The sacrifices and the commitment of those men made it possible for myself and many others.
My grandparents from the old country, Latvia, were all musical on my father's side.
Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.
I was born in Evanston, about three blocks away from the Chicago border. My mother, at the time, was finishing her Ph.D. in African History at Northwestern University. Soon after my birth, my parents split, and my father moved to Wicker Park, which is on the north side of the city.
I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have.
Mum was a high-jumper and qualified to go to the Olympics, but it got into the newspapers that she was married to my father, and the church put pressure on her to pull out of the Olympic team, saying, 'You can't be exposing all your legs.' That's how strong the influence of the church was on us all.
When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him.
If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.
I was pampered by all my father's directors and producers during childhood. But at home, my father made sure I led a normal life.
I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
I cohabited for 20 years with my longtime husband and father of my two now-teen daughters in a stable family household.
It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.
Men of my father's generation were perpetual hustlers, always on the make and always on the move.
In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.
There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.
Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore.
My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.
My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
To every little girl her father is a hero.
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
We don't consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They're still magical characters, and the fact they've been around the block only adds to their magic.
One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.
