I was looking for a father, he was gone. I hung around with the thugs, and even though they sold drugs, they showed a young brother love.
In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.
Every father expects his boy to do the things he wouldn't do when he was young.
Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesnt help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes todays intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.
In hindsight I can see that my love for the arts began by watching my father and his colleagues perform on stage in Jamaica, and running a muck among the exhibits of fabulous Jamaican art at the National Gallery while mum was upstairs curating.
Both Italy and Britain have a great tailoring tradition. British men are famously elegant and careful with their style: they love to have their clothes tailored, and they often have a trusted tailor who is passed on from father to son. Plus you have this great textile and fabric tradition, which has been a source of inspiration to us.
People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man.
God is good. He is eager to forgive. He wants us to perfect ourselves and maintain control of ourselves. He does not want Satan and others to control our lives. We must learn that keeping our Heavenly Father's commandments represents the only path to total control of ourselves, the only way to find joy, truth, and fulfillment in this life and in eternity.
The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious dynamic whereby she rejects her family in favour of her peers or of a larger society. . . . She continues to develop in relation to her parents. Her mother continues to have more influence over her than either her father or her friends.
I think all men when they get older, they look at the mirror and they probably see their father a little bit.
I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.
As a father of seven kids, and been a kid myself at one point, I realize you don't always make the best decisions every time out. And life is a learning experience.
My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.
Our Father in Heaven has promised us peace in times of trial and has provided a way for us to come to Him in our need. He has given us the privilege and power of prayer. He has told us to ‘pray always’ and has promised He will pour out his Spirit upon us.
The healing power of charity, bestowed by our Father and made possible by the Atonement of Jesus Christ, can make it virtually impossible for us even to feel emotions common to the natural man.
You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.
My father has been the real anchor of the family. Hes the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.
Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.