Quotes of: Father Keyword

Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

Craig T. Nelson

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

Norma Shearer

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

Toots Thielemans

For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions.

Vladimir Potanin

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'

Will Rogers

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

Warren Zevon

My father is just getting better and better, and that speaks so well of the way he approaches the work.

Domhnall Gleeson

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

Gene Tierney

We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation.

John Thune

My father was a big influence - it was very important to him that we traveled, and he gave me my strong work ethic.

Marcus Samuelsson

I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.

Danielle Steel

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

Warren Farrell

I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

My father was in the First World War.

Doris Lessing

If all goes well, we will be back in time for a proper memorial service [for your father], Ben. I promise." Ben looked up, and all the bitterness was gone from his eyes, replaced somehow by both resignation and determination. "And if all doesn't go w...

Curses Beneath Her Feet

And then, on September 11, the world fractured. It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day and the days that would follow--the planes, like specters, vanishing into steel and glass; the slow-motion cascade of the towers crumbling into thems...

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Some people say it is a shame. Others even imply that it would have been better if the baby had never been created. But the short time I had with my child is precious to me. It is painful to me, but I still wouldn't wish it away. I prayed that God wo...

An Empty Cradle, a Full Heart: Reflections for Mothers and Fathers after Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Infant Death

(We loved Mother too, completely, but we were finding out, as Father was too, that it is good for parents and for children to be alone now and then with one another...the man alone or the woman, to sound new notes in the mysterious music of parenthoo...

The Gastronomical Me

In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one tha...

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

A brick could have been used as a father figure in place of my dad when I was growing up, because a brick may be dumb, but at least it isn’t dumb and interfering in its absence. By not being a part of my life, my dad became a big part of my life, b...

Brick and Blanket

I'm going to make it very hard. I love you and I'm tired of being told what I should want and what I should do. You and I got married and I can stomp my foot and scream and rail at you because of the deal you made with my father, but the truth is I w...

Billionaire's Marriage Bargain