My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.
I may never know what type of effect I have on my sons, just like Granny never knew the effect she had on me. So I just try and make the best decisions that I can, be the best father that I can.
If confirmed, Judge [Samuel] Alito could serve on the court for generation or more. And the decisions he will make as justice will have a direct impact on the lives and liberties of our children, our grandchildren, and even our great-grandchildren.
There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children. Most of them got pretty neurotic - because, I think, of the contrast between what they were taught at school they were capable of being and what actually happened to them.
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.
Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
My parents were not professionals. They were products of the Depression.
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
My parents were born in 1906 and 1907. I think the experience of the Depression greatly influenced the way they thought about the world.
