He is born in secrecy after the death of his father and cast adrift soon after birth.

His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.

the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.

So far as I am concerned, the child is unmistakably father to the man, despite the obvious fact that child and father differ greatly -- sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.

and the narrator recalls the words of his father, Vincent Berger: `` It is not by any amount of scratching at the individual that one finally comes down to mankind ''.

He is throttling the liberty my father gave his life to win ''!!

He is the recognized `` father '' of the Rural Electrification Administration and the Security and Exchange Commission.

it is only after he has involved her emotions in his scheme that he uses her given name, placing himself by implication in the position of a solicitous father.

Naturally, the patient does not say, `` I hate my father '', or `` Sibling rivalry is what bugs me ''.

It is evident that Lizzie did not tell everything she overheard between her father and her Uncle Morse.

`` My father is a sergeant of detectives and has been attached to Homicide for five years.

He is married and the father of three children.

Their father is Charles B. Armour.

Stickney is a salesman for Plee-Zing, Inc., 2544 Green Bay Rd., Evanston, a food brokerage and grocery chain firm, of which his father, William L. Jr., is president.

One definition of paternalism is `` The principle or practice, on the part of a government, of managing the affairs of a country in the manner of a father dealing with his children ''.

The alchemist Robert Boyle is credited as being the father of chemistry.

Apollo and the Furies argue about whether the matricide was justified ; Apollo holds that the bond of marriage is sacred and Orestes was avenging his father, whereas the Erinyes say that the bond of blood between mother and son is more meaningful than the bond of marriage.

It is named after André-Marie Ampère ( 1775 – 1836 ), French mathematician and physicist, considered the father of electrodynamics.

* In PS 238, Atlas is a famous superhero and the father of one of the main characters

The word abbot, meaning father, is a title given to the head of a monastery in various traditions, including Christianity.

Her father, Joaquín Nin, was a Cuban pianist and composer, when he met her mother Rosa Culmell, who was a classically trained singer in Cuba of French and Danish descent.

Morton Downey, Jr .' s parents were also in show business ; his father, Morton Downey, was a popular singer, and his mother, Barbara Bennett, was a singer and dancer.

The singer remained, throughout her life, deeply grateful to her ancient " maestro ", nearly a second father to her.

His father worked for the National Coal Board and his mother was a singer with the Welsh National Opera.

Her father, John W. Bullock ( born 1925 ), was a United States Army employee and part-time voice coach from Birmingham, Alabama, and her mother, Helga D. Meyer ( 1942 – 2000 ), was a German opera singer and voice teacher.

His mother, a devout Catholic from Corscia, was once a professional singer, while his father, an assimilated Jew who had converted to Protestantism, ran a successful wine-export business.

Her stage name derives from Mitch Ryder, a soul and rock singer her father happened to be listening to when her agent called and asked how she wanted to appear on the credits of her first film.

Prince's father was a pianist and songwriter and his mother was a jazz singer.

Before the creation of Earth ( Arda ) when the Ainur sang to their father Ilúvatar, Ulmo was the best singer and maker of music.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

Her father was a cattle baron and orange farmer, and her mother was a well-known opera singer who gave up the stage to marry and raise a family.

2006 saw the debut of the hit original movie High School Musical and the series Hannah Montana, the latter of which launched the career of its star Miley Cyrus ( who appeared alongside her father, popular 1990s country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, in the series ).

Merritt has never met his father, folk singer Scott Fagan, who had a brief affair with Merritt's mother.

" The author adds that Presley's father Vernon " had a swimming pool in his bedroom ", that there " was a jukebox next to the swimming pool, containing Elvis ' favorite records " and that the singer himself " would spend hours in his bedroom, watching his property on a closed-circuit television.

Her son, Cristian, is a teen idol singer across Latin America and the United States, She, and Christian's father, Manuel Valdés, have never married.

Her father, Henry McDaniel, fought in the Civil War with the 122nd USCT and her mother, Susan Holbert, was a singer of religious music.

During his September 1977 tour of Australia, an eponymous compilation album ( also known unofficially as Starstorm ) that contained unreleased versions of previously released songs, was released by Starstorm Records, and distributed by Rhema Records, which was owned by his then Australian promoter, David Smallbone, the father of CCM singer Rebecca St. James.

* Robert McFerrin ( March 19, 1921 – November 24, 2006 ) opera singer who was the first African American male to sing at the Metropolitan Opera and father of the Grammy Award-winning conductor-vocalist Bobby McFerrin

At a party following the ceremony, Anthony tells his father that he is going to drop out of law school to pursue a career as an opera singer.

Kurt Donald Cobain ( 20 February 1967 – 5 April 1994 ), Nirvana lead singer and guitarist, moved to Montesano with his father as a child, following the divorce of his parents in 1976.

Arthur's biological mother was a beautiful young singer with whom his father had gone through a ceremony of sorts before being pressured by his wealthy uncle to marry the present Mrs Clenham.

Born in Chiswick, London into a musical family ( his father Cliff Townshend was a professional saxophonist in The Squadronaires and his mother Betty ( née Dennis ) was a singer ), Townshend exhibited a fascination with music at an early age.

The film portrayed the singer as a tragic man of simple ways, a well-meaning but clueless father and lousy husband tormented by stage fright and a propensity towards drinking.

Charles Burney wrote that Michael's father " tried to make him a singer, but he was naturally idle and not very quick.