“I didn't miss any games, but Coach Knight came out and spent three days with my family in Chicago when my dad passed away. I came back and played and it was good therapy for me. Having a basketball family and a coach who understood and actually became like a father figure for that time was comforting to me, and I'm sure that will be comforting to Coleman.” ThreeFatherGamesMissingFiguresDadComfortBasketballUnderstoodMy FamilyMy DadCoachesTherapyChicagoComfortingKnightsPassed AwayFather FigureDad Passed Away Author:Mike Krzyzewski
“My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.” ChildrenFatherMissingMomMy MomOnly Child Author:Brett Ratner
“I can't even begin to describe how I miss him. He always supported me in everything I did. He was a very wise man and I realised at an early age I could learn a lot from him. He always gave me the right answer. But above all he was a very easy-going guy and all he wanted was to be my best friend. I'm an only child and so he shared everything with me. Of course he was very young to die and I was very young to lose a father. But there was nothing left unsaid between us.” MenChildrenI CanAgeWantedYoungGuyDiesCoursesFatherLeftEasyLosesAnswersWiseMissingMy Best FriendRealisedOnly ChildRight AnswersUnsaidVery WiseEasy Going Author:Dhani Harrison
“What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you dont protect it, you lose it.” IfsWayLawFatherLosesMissingProtectTraditionPropertyProtected Author:Dexter Scott King
“The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.” FirstsMadeHandsAgeFatherHalfMissingFirst TimeBallsFedsRacket Author:Marion Bartoli
“We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.” PeopleStillsFatherPoorPovertyMissingChangedGrewGrew UpPoor PeopleThings ChangeDiplomatsSomalia Author:Iman Abdulmajid
“When I go into a bookstore I always look for books by John Fante. If they are out-of-stock on one of his titles, I tell the clerk to order what is missing. I do it because I want people to read my father's work.” PeopleIfsWantLooksBookOrderFatherMissingTitlesBookstoresClerks Author:John Fante
“Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but feeling all a Fathers Tenderness, longing to be at home that I might enquire and consider and take the Care I ought.” CharacterFeelingsHomeMightCareFatherGivenFamilyKnowingMissingOughtConcernLettersLongingTendernessNot KnowingAdvise Author:John Adams
“If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.” IfsKnowsFatherMissingMarriedUnderstoodExtraordinary Author:Gloria Vanderbilt
“Growing up, I didn't know about families who were missing a father, because there weren't any in our neighborhood. Today over a third of American children are born into single-parent homes. Is this all men's doing?” KnowsMenChildrenHomeTodayFatherParentBornGrowing UpGrowingMissingThirdsNeighborhoodAbout FamilySingle ParentParents Home Author:Timothy J. Russert
“A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector?” IfsSchoolFatherViewsMissingExampleMonthsLaughedGarbageFootballerCollectorsDustbinTopsy Turvy Author:David Icke
“There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside.” KnowsKidsBeautifulGuyFatherBlackKnow HowMissingBeautiful ThingsBlack WomenDeep Down Author:LL Cool J
“My father told me "If you choose to let this money destroy your initiative and independence, then it will be a curse to you and my action in giving it to you will have been a mistake. I shall regret very much to have you miss the glorious feeling of accomplishment. Remember that often adversity is a blessing in disguise and is certainly the greatest character builder."” IfsGivingHas BeensCharacterFeelingsActionRememberFatherMistakeMissingRegretBlessingAdversityIndependenceCurseAccomplishmentGloriousYou ChooseInitiativeDisguiseBuilderBlessings In Disguise Author:Charles Koch
“I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life.” MenFatherStrongPoorMissingPoor Family Author:Riccardo Tisci
“I felt my faith was on again off again until I met Paula White, who saw that the Lord had other plans; there was a weightiness to my spirit. She gave me the news that God loved me and wanted his son back. She spoke to the king in me and gave me new hope I could get right with God. The God I had hungered for; the Father I had been missing.” WantedSpiritFatherFeltWhiteLordSawsPlansMissingSonKingsMetsNewsGod LoveSpokesNew Hope Author:Jonathan Cain
“In the 1980s, I was working to reform the schools in Arkansas. Donald Trump was borrowing $14 million from his father to start his businesses. In the 1990s, I went to Beijing and I said women's rights are human rights. He insulted a former Miss Universe, Alicia Machado, called her an eating machine.” HumansSaidSchoolUniverseFatherMillionsRightsMissingTrumpEatingMachinesHuman RightsFormerReformWomens RightsBorrowingInsultedArkansasBeijing Author:Hillary Clinton
“I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin. So I think we can miss the point if we get too concerned about the gender of God.” IfsThinkingMotherFatherHouseLostMissingConcernedGenderTendernessCoinsHousewifeParables Author:Max Lucado
“Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.” FeelsChildrenDoeSeemsJobsFatherMissingMomAnxietyGuiltyDevotedPrimalWorking Mom Author:Camille Paglia
“Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game.” IfsFatherGamesMissingBaseballBaseball Games Author:Ryan Reynolds
“For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a cup of weak tea. The limeade was very interesting. It didn't taste anything like limes. It tasted bright green and vaguely chemical. Coraline liked it enormously. She wished they had it at home. "How are your dear mother and father?" asked Miss Spink. "Missing," said Coraline. "I haven't seen either of them since yesterday. I'm on my own. I think I've probably become a single child family.” ThinkingChildrenSaidHomeMotherThreeFatherMy OwnInterestingMissingHavensTasteWeakGreenDearGlassesYesterdayCupsTeaChemicalsVery InterestingMother And FatherBiscuitsLimesCoralineSingle ChildDear Mother Book:Coraline Source: Coraline