Father Quotes
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My father’s people were Welsh, and the oppression of the burdened miners also shaped my genes.
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I admire my father greatly.
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The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the young child instinctively regards the mother as the supreme authority. He looks upon the father as equal with himself, equally subject to the woman's rule. Children have to be taught to love, honor, and respect the father, a task usually assumed by the mother.
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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
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I do want children. I study dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I ever did and my brother and my sister.
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I have been grateful for the influence of my grandmother and my grandfather in my life. I remember my grandmother as a queenly woman. My father could be stern, and my grandparents would remind him that we were just boys.
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This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.
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My father used to call me the laughing hyena.
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I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.
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I think being a good Christian father, your responsibility varies with the age and the stage that your children are at.
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Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.
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Trump... has the 'strong father' masculine energy.
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With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
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It wasn't a typical 'Let's go play catch in the backyard' sort of father-son relationship. We always went to job sites with him.
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For centuries my father's family lived on Britain's biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade with the interior, and through the Port of Bristol with America.
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I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like I wasn't appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.
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My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain.
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Let's start off with my father being a mailman. So I understand the concerns of all the folks across this country, some of whom having trouble, you know, making ends meet.
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I remember my father banging away on an IBM Selectric in the garage. He wrote his first novels on that machine. I remember its pebbly surface, its cold heft. It made its mark, literally and violently.
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There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always listened to my mother's advice. As a result, he was a better, wiser, and kinder man.
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My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.
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Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And one always has to pause to wonder how much you have to drink to die at 34. And he was a really tragic father. I mean, he was absolutely unreliable. He was absolutely involved with various people. He had outside families, outside children, outside wives. He made his wife's life miserable. And she Eleanor Roosevelt ignored all of his faults and retained this sense of him as the perfect father.
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My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.
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What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. It's just remarkable.
