I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son father and friend.
To be as good as our fathers we must be better imitation is not discipleship.
I'm a father that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.
Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.
It doesn't matter who my father was it matters who I remember he was.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
When a father gives to his son both laugh when a son gives to his father both cry.
I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk and I began to write. The result for better or for worse is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.
My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year on Christmas.
Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.
What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far far from it but there is no free lunch as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.
One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.
When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.