Father Quotes
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He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.
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The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.
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My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.
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Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the father part.
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I am blessed to be a proud father of a daughter.
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My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.
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My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.
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Harry can paint but I can't. He has our father's talent while I, on the other hand, am about the biggest idiot on a piece of canvas. I did do a couple of drawings at Eton which were put on display. Teachers thought they were examples of modern art, but in fact, I was just trying to paint a house!
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I didn't really know anything about Romany culture going into this [Glue series]. The one thing that I liked the most about it is that it's so family based. They don't have mothers and fathers in the same way we do. They're really in a community, so parenting is shared between the community.
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'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
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I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.
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My most important relationships were with my father and grandmother.
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'For even in hell, I still have faith to one day be free with my father at the gates but make no mistakes, I'll show you what time takesto be a success on earth, mixed with all the hate'
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When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.
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She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page of sheet much, and yet wishing she were anywhere else on earth, free of it all.
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I'm a horror movie fan; I'm an avid fan and have been since I was five years old. My father and I watched horror movies, so this is a genre that is very close and very important to me.
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I think my father had a certain degree of insecurity and need to achieve.
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Even though my parents separated, my mother was in love with my father and never re-married.
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Losing my father at a tender age was hard, and I felt it more so while growing up when I needed a father to talk to. Especially while pursuing an acting career where I would have loved his guidance and advice, since it was his passion as well.
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My parents would make huge crops of sometimes 55 to 60 bales of cotton. Being from a big family where there were 20 children, it wasn't too hard to pick that much cotton. But my father, year after year, didn't get too much money and I remember he just kept going.
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My mom and dad are second-generation Greek-Americans who instilled in our middle-class family the values of hard work, self-reliance, and service, exemplified by my father's tenure as a U.S. Marine who was stationed at Camp David under President Truman.
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A father who sees his daughter leave in the arms of another man does not feel the same as a mother. It is heartrending for her, too. But it is not the same.
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It is disgusting that 'Life & Style' and 'InTouch' magazines continue to print these false stories about my life: the status of my marriage, false reports about a miscarriage, the horrible lie that my dad is not my biological father, jealousy over my sisters' lives, etc.
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When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.
