Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.

I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.