Quotes About Family

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.

Fathers need to be tough and tender...you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place.

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

I do want children. I study dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I ever did and my brother and my sister.

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.

I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then.

I am the son of an illiterate father and mother.

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.

In the 'looks of disappointment' department, my cat has picked up where my father left off.

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.

There's no pillow quite so soft as a father's strong shoulder.

The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.