“We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped by bitterness and love, and, of course, the video past--the portrayals of family life on such television programs as "Leave it to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best" and all the rest.” KnowsWayRealPastRememberCoursesFatherFamilyPiecesChildhoodTelevisionProgramAnd LoveVideoCombinationCollectivesBitternessParenthoodFamily LifePortrayalBeaversFather Knows Best Book:Childhood's Future Source: Childhood's Future
“My father is doing a radio program - classical music. He has a beautiful speaking voice and that's his passion in life, his music. My mother lives in Melbourne and is an avid photographer. She's also started writing for a magazine out there and she submits poems, very funny ones, and articles. In some way or other, my family is always doing something with the media.” WayWritingBeautifulMotherPassionFatherVoiceMediaProgramMy FamilyPhotographerRadioMagazinesArticlesSubmitClassical MusicAvidMelbourne Author:Olivia Newton-John
“Pretty much at the age of 16, I realized acting wasn't going to be the vocation for me...too political not enough creative control. But I loved the craft and my father wanted me to get a college degree. Seemed natural to study what I loved and Marymount Manhattan has a wonderful theatre program, I highly recommend it! A lot of what I learned there I apply to my comicbook writing and pacing.” WritingEnoughAgeWantedPoliticalFatherNaturalActingCreativeStudyWonderfulCollegeDegreesProgramTheatreI RealizedCraftsVocationManhattanPacingCollege Degree Author:Holly Golightly
“It's immoral to parent irresponsibly... And it doesn't help matters any when prime time tv, like "Murphy Brown", a character who is supposed to represent a successful career woman of today, mocks the importance of the father by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another "lifestyle choice." Marriage is probably the best anti-poverty program there is... Even though our cultural leaders in Hollywood, network TV, the national newspapers routinely jeer at [such values] I think most of us in this room know that some things are good, and other things are wrong.” ThinkingKnowsChildrenMatterCharacterHelpingTodayValuesChoicesFatherParentRoomsLeaderCareersPovertySuccessfulTvsCallingProgramHollywoodImportanceLifestyleNewspapersBrownPrimeImmoralMurphyCareer WomenSuccessful CareerPrime TimeLifestyle ChoicesMurphy Brown Author:Dan Quayle
“If Jesus Christ were to sit down with us and ask for an accounting of our stewardship, I am not sure He would focus much on programs and statistics. What the Savior would want to know is the condition of our heart. He would want to know how we love and minister to those in our care, how we show our love to our spouse and family, and how we lighten their daily load. And the Savior would want to know how you and I grow closer to Him and to our Heavenly Father.” IfsKnowsWantHeartShowsCareAsksFatherJesusGrowsChristKnow HowFocusConditionsJesus ChristProgramMinistersNot SureHeavenlyStatisticsSaviorLoadSpouseOur LoveStewardshipHeavenly FatherAccounting Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“Hopefully I never get hit with that stigma of being a novelty act. Since [my father] death in 1998 I've been doing a program called Sinatra Sings Sinatra.” FatherProgramHopefullyNoveltyStigma Author:Frank Sinatra, Jr.
“Qian Xuesen, the father of the Chinese Space Program, studied in the United States, and he was a protégé of Theodore Von Carmen's at Cal Tech and helped start the jet propulsion laboratory there, and then he got caught up in the anti-communism wave and was accused of being a spy and was actually deported back to China where he built from nothing, their entire missile and space program. So, in a way, in a very real way, the United States in trying to protect so-called protect our secrets and throwing this guy out of the country, we helped seed and start the Chinese missile program.” TryingRealCountryGuyFatherSecretProtectProgramWaveChineseCaught UpAccusedSpyLaboratoryJetTheodore Author:Leroy Chiao
“I can't tell you how many times at the breakfast table my dad would curse out Franklin Roosevelt. I love my father. He was an intelligent man, but he really didn't like regulations of the Roosevelt style, or the taxes. He was an Dwight Eisenhower man. And that's what Eisenhower did, committed to breaking down the program.” MenFatherStyleDadTaxesProgramIntelligentMy DadCommittedCurseBreaking DownFranklinDwight Author:Oliver Stone
“Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.” ChildrenSchoolFatherGamesDifferencesSonGoes OnDadDaughterProgramBallsYour ChildrenDaddyPicnicsFather And SonBall GamesRecitals Author:Ezra Taft Benson
“A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'” PeopleTwoRunningThreeFatherSpaceCompanySonDadProgramDollarsBillionsMarsMonkeysCablesSpace ProgramColonizing Mars Author:Lewis Black