Father Quotes
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Family was real important in putting me on my path. I'm so blessed to come from a home with a mother and a father.
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My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
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I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
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My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.
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It's hard to kill that father-son bond.
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My father was in the military; he was a captain. His service was to quote-unquote integrate the Armed Forces overseas.
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Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.
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I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companies.
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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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'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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Since I was a child, my father was sick. I've always known him to be that way. That's why I'm proud of him - he has a disease he's obviously struggling with, but he's not letting it stop him from doing what he wants to do.
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I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?
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Both my mother's family and my father's family go back almost a hundred years in the district. I was born in the district, raised in the district, raised my family in the district. And so that's the way I see myself.
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My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always rooted against them, always.
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My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor and friend. They taught me the basic principle that guides most all that I do: faith, focus, finish.
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I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.
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My love for artichokes comes from when I was very young. My mother and father would slice the hearts and fry them, and they would be crispy around the leaves and tender at the base.
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My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
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My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.
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We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
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My father's music is all I remember from my childhood.
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My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow,' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.'
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When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.
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My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned.
