My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension.

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension.

I met Roy's father once... And I think that Roy's relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day, he's trying to prove himself to a father he'll never really please.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

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.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

People voted with their hearts as they were remembering the father.

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.

Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments.