Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.

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.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

I always bring my little ukelele along in my shopping bag which my dear, sweet father bought me. After all, you just never know when a song might come along.

I'm really Americanized. The only real Latina thing I do is cook rice and beans with chuletas and tostones. I do the healthier version of what my grandmother would have made: a lot less salt, a lot less fat, a lot more vegetables. Sometimes I serve it with brown rice, which is, like, sacrilegious.

My father was from East Bengal. Having lost everything to the Partition, he came as a refugee.

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

All of us kids in the neighbourhood had to go shoeless for the same reason - all except the landlord's son, because his father had more income.

My father was a musician, a songwriter and he played at bars and restaurants and my mom was a secretary for an insurance company.

We're just trying to make 'The Darkside' its own brand. It's Fat Joe, but it's 'The Darkside.' We come with 'Vol. 2,' make it crazier than 'Vol. 1.' By the time 'Vol. 3' come, we got a problem on our hands.

It took a thing like my father's death to make me decide that I actually wanted to pursue drumming.

When I was a little girl, my father, who was a high-ranking officer, pilot, and an avionics specialist in the United States military, would hoist me up onto the elevator - the flight control surface located at the tail of his airplane. From up there I could get a glimpse of the world as he saw it.

In high school, I played football and became an all-American offensive lineman, but my father hadn't been to any of my games. In those instances, you still hold your head up high. But, when you look up into the stands and you see everyone else's parents cheering and supporting, you have to just stay focused and push through.

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.

Everyone's entitled to their opinion about my father. Some people think he's a distraction and takes some of my shine away, but, for me, that's not the case.

When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.

My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories.