Father Quotes
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations.
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My name is Jidenna, which means 'to hold or embrace the father' in Igbo. It was my father who gave me this name and who taught me countless parables, proverbs, and principles that made me the man I am today.
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The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.
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My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'
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I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina and didn't play a part in my life. He and my mother divorced when I was only two.
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I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.
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My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.
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I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I don't want to be attached to a catheter. I saw all that stuff happen to my father, and as much as it upset me because I loved my father so much, it also really traumatized me.
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My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.
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When I had a kid and I went through my drama and situation, I respected my father more because it kinda made me understand what he went through with me.
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I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.
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But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
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Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.
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My mother played guitar by ear, and all of us sang except my father, bless his heart.
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The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.
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I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.
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The father, the Name-of-the-father, sustains the structure of desire with the structure of the law- but the inheritance of the father is that which Kierkegaard designates for us, namely, his sin.
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So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.
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Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.
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My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
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In August 1914, my father was called to war and then taken prisoner. He died in captivity in Germany on March 27, 1915. My youth - indeed, my entire life - was deeply marked by this, directly and indirectly.
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I used to tell people my father was a plumber, because that would mean we had a normal life.
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My parents have always told me to work hard. My father was a friend, a very good friend, but when he needed to be a father, he was.
