Father Quotes
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My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name.
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We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to those creatures of our common Father which share with man the mystery of life.
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I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.
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I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory.
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When Mike Tyson was only 18, his managers used to market him on posters, reminding you that if your grandfather had missed Joe Louis, or your father Muhammad Ali, don't you miss Tyson.
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If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.
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Your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes. We say, 'I can't do that right now; this is my time alone with God.' No, this is your time alone with your habit.
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I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.
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I've always been a fan of my father's films. I'm crazy about my father and his movies. If I promote his movies, it's because of this.
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Becoming a father increases your capacity for love and your level of patience. It opens up another door in a person - a door which you may not even have known was there. That's what I feel with my son. There's suddenly another level of love that expands. My son is my greatest joy, out of everything in my life.
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does.
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My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.
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I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember flocks of white birds that would lift from the backs of cattle, disturbed by the jackhammers and bulldozers clearing land for Walt Disney World.
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On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.
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'I think it is so glorious,' said the American. 'There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.'
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I was always nervous to play my father's John Lennon's songs.
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I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a tremendous compassion for him, which has grown over the years. A certain kind of pity for him also in that he was so unrealised as a human being, so dogged, and so shut-off from people in many ways. You know, I've been writing another book, and it's another non-fiction autobiographical work, kind of a compliment to "Winter Journal", and it's just finished.
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Many great stories are father issues, mother issues or death.
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I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.
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One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model to teach you how to do things.
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As a child singer, I never sang a single track for my father or uncle.
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When I awoke in the morning, my mother and Julia Hislop were whispering in a corner. They didn't have to tell me why. I already knew that my father was dead. And when the feeling of peace wore off, the surprise at having known intensified my sense of loss and sorrow. Although I was only nine, I could imagine what death meant. I knew he was gone forever.
