Quotes About Family

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.

Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

I have one regret: I wish I was a better father.

My father had very little formal education.

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.

He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing.

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging.

He's amazing. He's a really dedicated father. I feel very blessed that every day I wake up and I live with my favourite people in the world, as well as my best friend.

I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.

Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.

I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.

A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

A child's cry touches a father's heart.