Quotes About Family

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

Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television.

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

I owe my father everything.

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

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

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.

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

I have a picture I keep in my wallet of my father's corpse... I keep that picture in my wallet to show people who show me baby pictures.

I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

My father was always there for me when I lost. But, then, I never really lost when my father was there.

The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.

I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.

You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.

If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.

I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.

Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.