Quotes About Influence

A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

My father was a saint. I'm not.

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

A father doesn't say, 'Don't go that way.' He says, 'ome follow me.'

Every dad is the family role model, whether he wants the job or not.

I attribute all of my success to my Catholic faith. My faith has given me the ability to be a good father, a good husband and most importantly a good person.

My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

I never cooked at home - my father was the chef.

My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.

I may be a young girl, but behind every young girl is a powerful father.

I owe my father everything.

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father.

To me my father is my hero, my mountain and my drive.

If I said 'Fall down', he's gonna fall down. I'm still his father.

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

I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.