I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father.

Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

I have no doubt that I'd be a marvelous father. Maybe not when they're tiny, but when they're a little bit older, I think I'd be rather good.

The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children - for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him - and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.

When I win awards, I think of my father.

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.

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.