#father

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father. ↗

— Missy Elliot

#father #got #i #mother #she

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me. ↗

— Black Elk

#clouds #come #drought #earth #gave

Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#began #behind #classical #classical music #ear

As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#children #families #father #i #know

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. ↗

— Joel Coen

#burden #driving #education #father #jew

My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#any #anything #back #basic #classes

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

— Carlo Collodi

#being #father #finding #him #his

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

— Ray Conniff

#artist #conversations #father #friends #i

I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be father I would like to be more grounded. ↗

— John Corbett

#because #father #future #going #grounded

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#considers #else #father #his #husband