“It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.” BeautifulValuesFatherTearsTaughtDadDaughterMy DadDaddyFather SonYour DadPrecious ThingsGreat FatherBeing A DadDaughter To FatherFatheringNew Father Author:Dawn French
“I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'” FatherFictionWeekMinutesStudentsOfficeFellowsLawyerCoffeeShopsLunchDaddyCablesWorkshopsCourtshipIowaCoffee Shop Author:Bharati Mukherjee
“Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what's in him and what's been given him.” ThinkingMenWantHumansHandsFatherOpportunityGivenResponsibilityPrinciplesTaughtImpulseDaddyHand In HandFathers DayTaught UsGreat Father Author:Laurance Rockefeller
“The Bible talks about how God uses difficult situations to develop our character and get us stronger. The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends. But out of that darkness, out of that disappointment in my life, that's what God used to push me into another level of victory or another level of ministry that I never knew I had.” CharacterUseUsedFatherDifficultLevelsSituationDarknessVictoryStrongerDisappointmentMinistryDaddyDifficult Situations Author:Joel Osteen
“I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it." And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!" And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there." So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work.” KnowsSaidImportantTodayRememberFatherNamesPerfectLessonsYeahKitchenTwelveGood WorkDaddyThirteenImportant Lessons Author:Toni Morrison
“I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.” PeopleHomeSchoolFatherNamesFeltClassGrewGrew UpPicksMajorityActressesMinoritiesOutsidersDaddyPick MePick Me Up Author:Cherie Lunghi
“In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me.” FatherCasesGrandfatherDaddyPapa Author:Clyde Edgerton
“I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl.” PeopleThinkingLittlesHomeLawGirlFatherRealizingClassMiddleGrewSafeOfficeGrew UpRadioClubsMiddle ClassHotelStationsChicagoSteelDaddyNursingMillsRadio StationsNursing HomeMotels Author:LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
“I've always thought it would be fun to update "Hansel and Gretel." I'd have these white parents in the suburbs with an income of fifty or sixty thousand dollars. Daddy loses his job, and the wicked stepmother says, "We could get along, we could keep our Mastercharge, if you'd just get rid of those shitty kids." Finally the father hires a limo and tells the driver, "Drop 'em off on Lenox Avenue in Harlem at two in the morning." These two little white kids land there. They're menaced. And this supposedly nice black lady says, "Would you like some candy?"” IfsLittlesTwoWould BeKidsJobsFatherFunParentBlackLosesWhiteMorningNiceLandThousandDollarsIncomeFiftyWickedEmsDriversSixtyCandyDaddyAvenuesSuburbsHarlemUpdatesStepmothersLimosHansel And GretelWicked Stepmothers Author:Stephen King