Father Quotes

Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.

John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Father
I was pampered by all my father's directors and producers during childhood. But at home, my father made sure I led a normal life.

Ram Charan
- Life
- Home
- Childhood

My father always told me that story was first and foremost. We would watch not just his films but a lot of classic American films. My father was a great David Lean fan, and David Lean's one of my favorite directors. We would discuss films endlessly.

Christopher Rouse
- Great
- American
- Father
He carried with him the aura of a prophet, a magician, a witch doctor, a psychoanalyst, and a feared father of a Jewish home.... He was the force that held the thirty-odd members of the theatre together, and made them permanent.

Elia Kazan
- Home
- Together
- Theatre
My father brought me my first stack of comics, when I was seven years old and in the hospital. I was not a well child. And that's where my love for comics began.

Len Wein
- Father
- Comics
- Hospital
My father worked real hard. I admired him. My father taught me you needed to work with your brain and not your back. I've made that a passion.

Don Cornelius
- Work
- Real
- Passion
I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

Mavis Staples
- Father
Mobile is a seaport town, and we ate a lot of seafood. We'd go fishing, we'd catch our fish and we'd eat our fish. It was a ritual on Saturday morning for all my family - my grandfather, my brothers, my uncles, my father - to go fishing, and then the ladies of the family would clean the fish and fry them up.

Billy Williams
- Up
- Family
- Morning