A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations.

Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.

What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man... God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.

Losing my father made me want to find out if I could come up with a version of God or the afterlife that I could feel like was acceptable now that both my parents are in it.

I'm a father.

The 'Vampire of Ropraz' claims to be based on a true story, but the name of Rosa's father matches that of a notable Swiss artist and restorer. The eventual suspect has the overlong teeth and shambling...

My father didn't know about cricket. Then, one of my father's friends advised him to take me to a coaching camp.

For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never happened. But, I had grown into my father. I shouldn't have been surprised. Everyone always said I was...

I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well.

My father taught me poker at a very young age and I've been playing for money since I was 14 years old.

You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you...

Please don't try and dramatize my relationship with Woody Allen. He was never any kind of father figure to me.

My mom is just incredible. She's delved into both the mother and father figure in my life.

But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the...

My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.

I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.

My whole family is extremely blue collar - teachers and police officers probably make up half my family. My father was a garbage man.

My father's family, I think, were mostly from Lancashire, but I don't know how far back we go. I think it's quite a few generations.

My father was a corporate lawyer. He went to work in a suit and tie. He had a secretary. He left the house before seven A.M. His professional life felt generic, like a backdrop, a signifier more than...

Every song is personal, but 'Ohio,' on my first EP, was on another level. I really opened up about the lack of relationship I had with my father. We stopped talking about four years ago, and I haven't...

I'm just kind of private just because I grew up always with a camera in my face because of my father, and I was highly touted and ranked in high school. So I just like to be kind of low-key off the...

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to...

Most every young man either takes inspiration from his father or wishes he could. I was fortunate in that I could.

I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.

I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.

My mother is an artist, my father an entrepreneur.

My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all...

My father being a soldier, every time I saw soldiers marching - 'Well,' I thought, 'my father's that,' and these soldiers were always looking magnificent. And I thought they were powerful; they were...

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.