Father Quotes

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Brad Pitt
- Father
- Connection
We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

Beverly Cleary
- People
- Mother
- Father

Gonpo Tso was born a princess. As a young woman, she dressed in fur-trimmed robes with fat ropes of coral beads strung around her neck. She lived in an adobe castle on the edge of the Tibetan plateau with a reception room large enough to accommodate the thousand Buddhist monks who once paid tribute to her father.

Barbara Demick
- She
- Woman
- Princess
I wish I looked more like my mother, but I think I look like my father. I wish I had one of those naturally beautiful faces. Or a more quirky face. I'm right down the middle: not interesting enough, not pretty enough.

Chloe Sevigny
- Mother
- Pretty
- Beautiful
Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.

Irving Stone
- Life
- Women
- Mother
Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.

Natasha Trethewey
- Writing
- Poet
- Poems
My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.

Daniel Bruhl
- Up
- Home
- Mother
The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.

Victoria Gotti
- Life
- Real
- Godfather