My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.
My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.
Harry Potter: My father was a great man! Severus Snape: Your father was a SWINE.
[to receptionist after being asked about her father (Leon)] Mathilda: He's not my father. He's my lover.
My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting influence must have been from her - yes, put it down to my mother.
My father, my mother, and then my father was always on top of me - 'Keep your nose clean. Do you love what you're doing?' 'Yes.' 'Then be aware, or you're going to lose it.'
I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.
Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though.
Even if I wasn't in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go 'You're just like Bob. You're just like your father.' That happens in Jamaica all the time.
Antonio Salieri: [to Father Vogel] That was not Mozart laughing, Father... that was God. That was God laughing at me through that obscene giggle...
Father: [from trailer] I'm a solider. Soldiers fight a war. Mother: That's not war! Father: It's a vital part of it!
The best asset any good father can will to his children is education because it is the key to an undiluted successful life
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
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.
Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly in fools.
Once you have found your rhythm, you will then know your God.
If you know his father and grandfather, don't worry about his son.
The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell on their knees; then they fell upon the aborigines.
Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.
A father deserted by a wise son is like being caught in a shower without a felt.
No one will say, "My father is incontinent." Everyone will say, "He is a man of advice and wisdom."
