Father Quotes
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And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.
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Just as a father feels it is all ending and his children are off to start their own families, a new role begins. In midlife, Dad may experience his second "fatherhood" as a grandparent.
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What I always wanted to be was a magician... My real upbringing when I was a teenager was doing magic shows, all over the state, with my father and brothers. Doing magic, you not only have to be able to do a trick, you have to have a little story line to go with it. And writing is essentially a trick.
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To her, the name of father was another name for love.
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There is a fine circumstance connected with the character of a Cynic,-that he must be beaten like an ass, and yet when beaten must love those who beat him, as the father, as the brother of all.
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My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately.... I, on the other hand, had a zealous partiality for heirs male, however remote.
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Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.
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May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.
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My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home.
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My father is Hungarian and moved to Britain during the uprising, and my Spanish mum comes from Galicia; they moved here at the end of the Fifties.
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I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.
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My father was an actor. Both of my older brothers are actors. My younger sister is an actress. For me, that's my job; that's my craft. But then all through school and through drama school, I was gigging and running nights and playing in bands, and I just didn't want to let that go.
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You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.
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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 was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from the age of 7, but I started to write when I was 12 and by the time I was 14 I was making more money than I was acting.
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The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.
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For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions.
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My father played with Air Supply, Yes, B.B. King and even Sheryl Crow when she first started out, so I've sort of been around the industry for a long time.
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You wouldn't expect a cattle dealer to sit down at a grand piano and play it beautifully. That's my father.
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What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.
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Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.
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Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.
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My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children.
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I grew up in Texas City, Texas. I didn't know anybody who was a director or whose parents or grandparents were directors. I met somebody from a nearby town one time whose father had been to the moon - it was far more likely to be an astronaut than it was to be a writer or a director.
